Patricia Hirano Biography and Net Worth

Ms. Hirano is our Senior Vice President, Regulatory Affairs and has over 20 years of regulatory affairs in the biopharmaceutical industry. She joined the Company as Vice President, Regulatory Affairs in January, 2019. From April, 2017 through December, 2018, Ms. Hirano served as Head of Regulatory Affairs and Quality at the Company in a consulting capacity.

Prior to this, she was an independent regulatory consultant since April, 2010, providing regulatory affairs, project management, and clinical operations expertise to biopharmaceutical and biosimilar companies. Her experience encompasses the development of pharmaceuticals, biologics, and drug-device combination products for the treatment of oncology, cardiovascular, neurology, pulmonary/allergy, and endocrine/metabolic diseases. Prior to 2010, she held various positions of increasing responsibility at the Company, Titan Pharmaceuticals, Inc., PRTM (now PWC), CV Therapeutics, Inc. (acquired by Gilead), and Matrix Pharmaceutical, Inc. (acquired by Chiron Corp). She has also been the coordinator of the Bay Area Compliance Discussion Group since 1998. She has been a Director at The Big C Society since April 2014. She earned a Bachelor's degree in physical education from the University of California, Berkeley, and Master of Public Health degree from San Jose State University.