Generally speaking new medicines of each pharmaceutical company are coming more from outside than from in-house candidates. It means Business Development & Licensing (BDL) group has to play a very important role in each company.
Masafumi Yoshimoto has been engaged in R&D planning and BDL in Sankyo from 1987 to 2005 after his career of a research scientist from 1966 to 1987 in Sankyo.
He has been heavily involved in hundreds of deals Representative company
in R&D alliances, in-licensing and out-licensing in Sankyo Masafumi Yoshimoto
and his own PharmaBDL LLC which was founded in 2005.
In fact he has been enjoying his new life after the retirement from Sankyo in June 2005, however too many bad friends never allowed him to spend such an easy life. They have asked him many items to help them and he decided to establish PharmaBDL in November 2005.
He used to say, probably he prefers seeking a new medicine to fishing or chasing a golf ball. Now BDL is a kind of hobby for him. He can enjoy himself in learning more about new sciences and technologies through his interactions with many executives among his vast net works. Since his establishment of PharmaBDL in 2005 he worked with more than 100 clients.
He looks repaying so many favors shown from his bad and good friends for years. His Credo is very simple, only Honesty which is coming from his hereditary Christianism.