Dr Dirksen (Dirk) Bussiere earned his B.A. in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology from Northwestern University, his M.S. in Molecular Biophysics from Yale University, and his Ph.D. in Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Biophysics from Duke University. After completing his Ph.D. in 1996, Dirk joined Abbott Laboratories, working in the Structural Biology, Computer-Aided Drug Design, and Scientific Computing groups. He was subsequently recruited to Chiron Corporation in 1999 to start their structural biology, biophysics, and experimental structure-based drug design efforts. Chiron Corporation was then integrated into the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research and Dirk became the Director of the Structural and Biophysical Chemistry group at their Emeryvilla, California campus. During this time, he was named a Novartis Leading Scientist. In 2020, Dirk became the Senior Director of the Molecular Pharmacology department at Eli Lilly and Company, leading an effort that spans biochemistry, biophysics, in vitro and cellular pharmacology, chemical biology, bioNMR, and structural biology. Dirk’s research interests involve the application of biological, chemical, and structural data to the treatment of human disease.