Dr. Steven M. Paul to Retire from Lilly as Executive Vice President, Science and Technology

Dr. Jan M. Lundberg, Executive Vice President, Head of Global Discovery Research, AstraZeneca, Named his Successor

16-Nov-2009 - USA

Eli Lilly and Company announced today thatSteven M. Paul, M.D., executive vice president, science and technology, and president, Lilly Research Laboratories, will retire from Lilly effective February 28, 2010. Lilly has also announced that Jan M. Lundberg, Ph.D., executive vice president and head of global discovery research, AstraZeneca, is to become his successor. Paul is committed to working closely with Lundberg to ensure a successful transition. Lundberg plans to join Lilly inIndianapolisas early asJanuary 2010, subject to completion of the U.S. immigration process.

Paul joined Lilly as vice president, central nervous system discovery research and decision-phase medical research, in 1993. He was named group vice president, therapeutic area discovery research and clinical investigation, in 1998. Paul has been in his current role since 2003. Before coming to Lilly, Paul was the scientific director of the National Institute of Mental Health. Paul had planned to retire in 2010. With the successful recruitment of his successor, he will retire at the end of February 2010.

Jan M. Lundberg has a Ph.D. from Karolinska Institute, where he was a professor in the department of pharmacology before moving to industry. Prior to Karolinska, he attended Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota and the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. He has published approximately 500 scientific articles, mainly related to mechanisms of cell signaling in the nervous, cardiovascular, endocrine and respiratory systems. Lundberg has won a variety of research awards and is a highly cited author in the areas of biology and biochemistry, pharmacology and neuroscience. He has been a member of the Swedish Medical Research Council and also of the Advisory Board for Drug Approvals at the Swedish Medical Product Agency. In January 2003, he was appointed Honorary Doctor of Pharmacy at Uppsala University.

During the last 10 years at AstraZeneca, as head of global discovery research, Lundberg was instrumental in delivering more than 150 drug candidates to the company's pipeline. He had responsibility for discovery research and supported clinical development of potential therapies for cancer, infection, central nervous system disorders, pain, cardiovascular, metabolic and respiratory diseases, gastrointestinal conditions, and inflammation. Lundberg was also responsible for discovery-enabling technologies, discovery informatics, drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics, translational science and safety assessment. He has had a leading role in external activities, including in-licensing of projects and technologies, as well as acquisitions of biotech companies. His organization was involved with both small molecules and biologics. For the past seven years, he has been an executive vice president and member of the senior executive team, reporting to the CEO of AstraZeneca.

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