Lynn Arenella

Lynn Arenella has spent the last two and one-half decades specifically focused on curriculum design and teaching at the intersection of business and science in the biopharmaceutical industry. She has designed unique courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels that make extensive use of a practitioner-based approach to teaching about the business of biopharmaceutical development. She has also designed and run successful Executive Education programs for professionals in this industry, including a Breakfast Series on the Biotechnology Industry attended by many senior-level professionals of biopharmaceutical companies and firms working with the industry. Arenella has also worked for a large pharmaceutical company delivering drug-related curricula for sales and marketing as well as for consulting companies providing market analyses on the research and commercialization efforts of biotech and pharmaceutical companies developing new treatments for neurological diseases and conditions. She has held teaching and research appointments at the University of Rochester School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, Boston University School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and the West Roxbury VA, and the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology. A cellular neurobiologist by training, Arenella did nationally recognized research demonstrating regeneration in the adult central nervous system. Arenella has a PhD from The Center for Brain Research at the University of Rochester School of Medicine.