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Robert Armstrong

 
VP - Discovery Chemistry Research - Eli Lilly & Co.
 
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Company Name : Eli Lilly & Co.
 
Company Website : www.lilly.com
 
Company Address : Lilly Corporate Ctr.
, Indianapolis, IN,
United States,
 
Robert Armstrong Profile :
VP - Discovery Chemistry Research - Eli Lilly & Co.
 
Robert Armstrong Biography :

Robert W. Armstrong Ph.D. joined Eli Lilly and Company in November 1999 as vice president discovery chemistry research Lilly Research Laboratories and is a member of the senior management council. He is leading the LRL therapeutic area drug discovery chemistry and physical chemistry efforts in Indianapolis; Erl Wood England; Hamburg Germany; and Alcobendas Spain. Before coming to Lilly Armstrong had been director and head of small molecule drug discovery at Amgen Inc.

Born in Texas and raised in Latin America Armstrong speaks fluent Spanish. He received bachelor of science degrees in chemistry and biochemistry from the University of California at San Diego in 1979 and a doctorate degree in chemistry from Colorado State University in 1984. Upon completion of an NIH postdoctoral fellowship with Yoshito Kishi at Harvard University he joined the University of California at Los Angeles faculty in 1986 as an assistant professor.

Armstrong's research efforts have concentrated on the areas of total synthesis of natural products development of synthetic methodology and synthesis and conformational analysis of natural and synthetic biopolymers including DNA peptides and oligosaccharides. A second area of interest includes the eludication of the mechanism of action of DNA modifying agents and the design of nucleoside modifications as structure-activity probes.

He received an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1988 and a Sloan Foundation Fellowship in 1990.

 
Robert Armstrong Colleagues :
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Kathi Seifert

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Gino Santini

Sr. VP - Corporate Strategy, Business Development Please login

Alfonso Zulueta

Pres., GM - Lilly Japan Please login

John Lechleiter

Chmn., CEO, Pres. Please login

Elizabeth Klimes

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