IU President Michael A. McRobbie (right) meets with Eric Ballet, president and general manager of Lilly Italy.The IU delegation visited Lilly Italy’s main headquarters in the Sesto Fiorentino area of Florence. It is the Italian affiliate of Eli Lilly, which has a longstanding and productive relationship with Indiana University. Lilly Italy is more than 50 years old, and it is home to one of Italy’s largest sites for the production of pharmaceutical medicines, with about 1,100 employees who work in a state-of-the-art, 43,000-square-foot office and manufacturing facility in Tuscany. IU President Michael A. McRobbie (second from left) and delegation members wrapped up their time at Lilly Italy with a tour of the manufacturing plant, where they were given a first-hand look at how the company works to isolate, produce, sterilize and package its insulin products.
