Director of Drug Delivery
Eli Lilly and Company
Sarena Horava is a Director in Drug Delivery and New Product Innovation at Eli Lilly’s Seaport Innovation Center. Sarena has over 5 years of experience at Lilly focused on drug delivery systems for synthetic small molecules and biologics. In her role, she has also developed controlled-release polymer-based formulations. Before Lilly, Sarena led drug delivery and biomaterials research programs for the Defense Health Agency at Triton Systems.
Sarena earned her BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2012 and her PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2016.