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Dr. DiMarchi is the Linda & Jack Gill Chair in Biomolecular Sciences and Professor of Chemistry at Indiana University. He is a retired Group Vice President at Eli Lilly & Company where for more than two decades he provided leadership for biotechnology, endocrine research and product development. He is a co-founder of the biotechnology companies Ambrx and Inproteo. He previously served as a board member of both the biotechnology trade group BIO and of Millennium Biotherapeutics. His current scientific activities remain focused on the relationship of protein structure and function, with a particular interest in novel methods of macromolecular synthesis and drug delivery. He contributed to the discovery of Humalog� and commercial development of Humulin�, Humatrope�, Glucagon�, Xigris�, Forteo�, and Evista�. Humalog� represents the first biosynthetic hormone optimized by rDNA technology approved as a human medicine and presently registers annual sales in excess of one billon US dollars. | 