Boyd Steere is a Principal Research Scientist at Lilly, where he works as a bioinformaticist in the Immunology therapeutic area, heads the biology effort of a drug discovery team, and leads Lilly Immunology’s single cell multi-omics program. Dr. Steere graduated from UCLA in 2000 with a PhD in X-ray protein crystallography. He then joined the pharmaceutical software company Simulations Plus, where he developed neural network models to predict small molecule properties. After coming to Lilly in 2005, Dr. Steere was a scientific lead in the Discovery IT organization before transitioning in 2015 to the company’s drug research program in autoimmune diseases