Jane Buus Laursen is Corporate Vice President and head of Novo Nordisk’s Late Stage & Commercial Business Development. Before that, she spent 15 years at AstraZeneca where she completed a large number of deals with biotechs, pharma and academia spanning from early stage to late stage business transactions across all of AstraZeneca’s strategic areas. Her CV includes licensing deals, M&As, commercial partnerships and divestments of late stage clinical and on-market assets, in addition to spin-out of early stage assets.