# @elilillyco on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2022-08-06T13:59:09.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Eli Lilly and Company (@elilillyco) — https://gondola.cc/elilillyco

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#WeAreLilly 35,000 global employees #PoweredbyPurpose 
 
I was born and raised in Taiwan, where I received medical training and my specialist license as a pulmonologist, but I later decided I wanted to do something different. I wanted to see if I could be a pharmaceutical physician, though there are not as many opportunities in Taiwan as there are in the US or Europe. Lilly Taiwan had one opening in 2015 for a clinical research physician role supporting autoimmune disease and osteoporosis — which had nothing to do with my specialty. Still, I was thinking, 'I want to see if I like that and the lifestyle in pharmaceuticals.' 
 
Our Lilly Taiwan team helped successfully launch medicines for rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, psoriasis and migraine. In 2020, my family and I relocated to Indianapolis to join the late phase immunology team as medical director supporting clinical research in alopecia areata (AA). 
 
Helping to bring medicine to a disease where the treatment options have been limited is what gets me out of bed every morning. With AA, something in the immune system begins to attack a person’s hair follicles and suddenly, they lose some or all of their hair. Until recently, there has never been an FDA-approved systemic medicine for AA. 
 
A new treatment would be so important for patients to help them regrow their hair. Some people would argue it's just a cosmetic disease. They say, 'It’s just hair.' But for these people it’s so much more, including not looking like themselves.
 
It has been my passion to see a new medicine approved so that it will be available to patients and physicians — giving them a new option to treat this disease. 
 
Marco (Wen-Shuo) Wu, MD 
Senior Director, Medical Immunology 

#InternationalAlopeciaDay

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