Bayan Takizawa, is a cofounder and Chief Strategy Officer at CONTINUUS Pharmaceuticals. Dr. Takizawa has helped the CONTINUUS team raise over $100M through financing rounds, grants, and contracts with multiple commercial partners and government agencies. Before joining CONTINUUS, Bayan was a consultant at The Chartis Group, a leading advisory firm that provides strategic and operational support for hospitals and healthcare systems. Prior to Chartis, Bayan worked at Actin Biomed, a healthcare investment firm, and Yale New Haven Hospital as a General Surgery and Urology resident. Bayan has an M.D. from Yale, an M.S. in Engineering Systems and M.B.A. from MIT, and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Cornell. He has multiple publications in peer-reviewed journals and is an active member of the Massachusetts life sciences community.
