From Bench to Market: A Tour of Pharmaceutical Development

Thursday, April 21, 2022, 5 - 6pm

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Ben Anderson, Ph.D., gives The Cooper Union Albert Nerken School of Engineering 2022 The Theodore Eng’39, Mary, and Sara Kraut Endowed Lecture on the the path of a drug candidate from discovery to a commercial product.

Ben Anderson, Ph.D., is vice president, global product leader in the Oncology Business Unit at Eli Lilly and Company. He is responsible for the global development and registration of several late-stage assets in the Lilly oncology portfolio. Prior to joining the Oncology Business Unit, Anderson was senior director of drug development at Eli Lilly Japan K.K. He served as co-chair of the American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Institute Pharmaceutical Roundtable and as a member of the National Academy of Science’s Board on chemical sciences and technology. Anderson received a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Chicago and was a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University.

Attendees are required to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination and booster and must wear a CDC-recommended mask (disposable surgical, KN95, KF94, or N95) while indoors. Cloth masks alone are not permitted but may be worn as a second layer over a disposable surgical mask.

Located in the Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, at 41 Cooper Square (on Third Avenue between 6th and 7th Streets)

  • Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.

  • “My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”

  • From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.

  • Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.