Ronald Iacocca, PhD Eli Lilly and Company

Ronald received his B. S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). For nine years prior to joining Lilly, he was a faculty member in the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics at The Pennsylvania State University. Currently, as the senior-most technical engineer in Lilly, he manages projects ranging from packaging and device development to packaging/drug interactions. He has authored/co-authored over 70 journal articles, book chapters, and review articles, and has been granted 4 patents. In 2005, he was selected as one of ninety world-wide experts by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to participate in the road-mapping initiative for the development of a world-wide malaria vaccine. Dr. Iacocca also served as an adjunct professor in the Department of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy at Purdue University from 2006-2009, and is a reviewer for a number of scientific journals. From 2010-2015, he was elected to the USP to serve on the Physical Analysis Expert Committee.