Stephanie Truhlar | Senior Research Advisor
Eli Lilly and Co

Stephanie Truhlar received her Ph.D. in Chemistry and Chemical Biology from the University of California, San Francisco and completed her post-doctoral training at the University of California, San Diego. In her 14 years at Eli Lilly and Company, she has contributed to the protein engineering of numerous clinical candidates, as well as the development of a proprietary bispecific antibody platform. Over her career, Stephanie’s excellence has been recognized with numerous awards in both the academic and pharmaceutic sectors, published 13 peer-reviewed papers, is a co-inventor on seven patents, and has presented numerous external talks. Stephanie now leads the Computational Sciences and Protein Engineering group in Biotechnology Discovery Research, and she is responsible for the discovery of protein and antibody therapeutics, innovation of core technologies, building new platform technologies, and harnessing predictive modeling capabilities to improve developability, immunogenicity, and pharmacokinetics.