Lorrene A. Buckley MS, PhD, DABT, ATS

Dr. Buckley is a board-certified toxicologist with over 30 years of experience in the active practice of toxicology. She earned her Masters degree in Toxicology at the University of Arizona and a doctorate, also in Toxicology, at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in collaboration with the laboratories of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the US Environmental Protection Agency.

Dr. Buckley’s diversity of professional experience as a toxicologist is reflected in her work spanning basic and applied toxicology research and risk assessment in the industrial chemical, agrochemical, and pharmaceutical industries. In her current position as a Senior Research Fellow at Eli Lilly & Company, she is responsible for the design and execution of nonclinical safety assessment programs, including general and other toxicology studies, as well as for nonclinical aspects of global regulatory submissions and interactions for a variety of drugs in the development and commercialization phases. Dr. Buckley has authored the pharmacology/toxicology sections of numerous regulatory documents including briefing documents, INDs/IMPDs, BLAs/NDAs, investigator brochures, annual reports, as well as safety information on product labels/package inserts.