Huyen Tran, Ph.D.
Director in Formulation and Delivery
Eli Lilly and Company
Huyen Tran is currently a Director in Formulation and Delivery and Platform Lead of Oral Peptide Delivery in Biotherapeutics Discovery Research at Eli Lilly and Company. She holds PhD, MSc and BS in Pharmaceutics focusing on the development of controlled release formulations and nanoparticle-based delivery systems for improving oral drug bioavailability. Huyen had 5+ years of Postdoctoral experiences in formulation development of nanoparticle-based delivery systems for small molecules, DNA and RNA for cancer therapies and treatment of inflammatory diseases. Since joining Lilly in 2015, she has been leading formulation development in Discovery phase including identification and implementation of new formulations and drug delivery technologies to overcome challenges of oral peptide delivery. Huyen is an author of >30 publications and co-inventor of 3 patents and 1 patent application on formulation development, nanoparticles for drug delivery and oral peptide delivery.