Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Center

Steven Haney, PhD

Research Fellow, Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Center

Steven Haney, Ph.D., joined the IBRI in July 2018 as Research Fellow in the IBRI’s Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Center. In this role, he is responsible for establishing the protein expression and production cores, as well as developing biological support for emerging therapeutics.

Prior to the IBRI, and since 2012, Dr. Haney served as a Senior Research Advisor and Group Leader, and Senior Research Advisor at Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN. His research focus at Lilly was on quantitative biology discovery chemistry and research technologies, and oncology translational research. Prior to Lilly, he was a consultant to the Yale Medical Center for Molecular Discovery, New Haven, CT. He also held various senior, principal and management scientific research positions at Pfizer Research and Wyeth Research, both Cambridge, MA, and at Cadus Pharmaceutical Corporation, Tarrytown, NY.

Dr. Haney earned a B.S. in Biochemistry from the State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY, and a Ph.D., in Biological Chemistry from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI and was a Research Fellow in the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. He co-holds the patent for methods of modulating apoptosis using inhibitors of brain-localized protein kinases. He has authored or co-authored more than 25 publications, and has authored more than 30 commentaries, reviews and book chapters, and is the editor of two books on High Content Screening.   He is currently President of the Society for Biomolecular Imaging and Informatics.

Victor Wroblewski, PhD

Research Fellow, Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Center

Victor J. Wroblewski, Ph.D., joined the IBRI in July 2018 as Research Fellow in the IBRI’s Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Center. In this role, he is responsible for preclinical evaluation and optimization of antibody leads and lead development. 

Prior to the IBRI, Dr. Wroblewski held positions with increasing responsibility during a 25-year span at Eli Lilly and Company’s Lilly Research Laboratories in Indianapolis, IN. His responsibilities at Lilly Research Labs included the direction of a team of 30 scientists charged with supporting the preclinical development of Lilly’s biotechnology portfolio (monoclonal antibodies, multi-functional antibodies, fusion proteins and peptides). Prior to Lilly, he worked at Bayer Corporation in Berkeley, CA, as a Staff Scientist and Senior Staff Scientist, and before that, he served as a Post-Doctoral Scientist at the University of California at Davis.

Dr. Wroblewski earned a B.S. in Biology from State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY, and his Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY. He holds the patent for Protease Resistant FLINT Analogs. He has authored, co-authored or contributed to more than 25 publications and book chapters.

Partha Banerjee, PhD

Staff Scientist, Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Center