David Allen, PhD Eli Lilly & Company

Dr. David Allen is currently the Senior Director of Tech Services for the Indianapolis Parenteral Operations for Eli Lilly and Company. David joined Eli Lilly and Company in 1994 from The Upjohn Company of Kalamazoo, Michigan. His tenure in industry has spanned 26 years in total and for the first 11 years focused on protein therapeutic R&D with an emphasis on products on the pre-clinical to Phase II development activities. For the past 15 years David has focused on manufacturing science and technology issues that has ranged from large scale protein purification of recombinant DNA proteins (Insulin), facility design and commissioning, process validation and currently Parenteral drug product manufacturing. David obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Purdue University in 1988 and his B.S. in Biochemistry from University of Pittsburgh in 1982.