# @elilillyco on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CtJlpOStZtz
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/64294428-elilillyco-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-06-06T13:00:20.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Eli Lilly and Company (@elilillyco) — https://gondola.cc/elilillyco

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As a college student, Paul Ardayfio began staying after class, curious to learn more from professors about neuroscience or biopsychology. Their answers left him wanting more. "Well, I don't know the answer," they would tell him. "And it's not just because I don't personally know it, it's because the field doesn't know. Nobody knows the answers, so you'll have to find the answers yourself." Challenge accepted.

After completing his undergraduate degree at Detroit's Wayne State University, he received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience at Harvard Medical School. He wanted to help people with brain illnesses—epilepsy, depression and other conditions—which impacted several family members and friends. While working at an addiction center and psychiatric hospital, he also saw hopelessness first-hand. "Brain disorders and illnesses impact society and communities and unravel people and families in a way that feels especially cruel," Ardayfio said. "I became a neuroscientist because I saw how psychiatric and neurological disorders robbed people of their sense of self and many of the core emotions and thought processes that make us human."

In 2009, Ardayfio joined Lilly to help develop potential medicines for neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer's disease. As a lead global patient safety scientist for neuroscience, he helps evaluate the safety of medicines in clinical studies and ensures the benefits and risks are investigated and communicated accurately. He's also passionate about helping foster the next generation of talented, diverse scientists. Working with high school, college and grad students, he sees an extension of his purpose beyond our walls—to promote science outside the classroom, in the community. "Young people can make a tremendous impact in science—but they often don't realize their potential," Ardayfio notes. "To have a small role in helping tap that potential is extremely rewarding."

Paul A. Ardayfio
Executive Director, Global Patient Safety, Medical

37,000 global employees #PoweredbyPurpose #WeAreLilly

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