Dr. Jo Viney is currently the CEO of Seismic Therapeutics. Prior to this position, she was the president, chief scientific officer, and co-founder of Pandion Therapeutics, now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Merck & Co, where she developed novel therapeutics designed to address the unmet needs of patients living with autoimmune diseases. Prior to founding Pandion, Dr. Viney worked at Immunex, Amgen, and most recently Biogen where she served as a senior vice president of the drug discovery organization. Jo has also been an advocate for workplace inclusiveness. From 2015 – 2020, she served on the Board of WEST (Women in the Enterprise of Science and Technology), a non-profit organization supporting early to mid-career women, and served as the President from 2017-2018. 

BTBA had the fortune of working with Jo in March 2021 at the event of “𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙒𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣 𝙇𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨 - 𝗘𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗘𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽,” and it is our great honor to have Jo being the Keynote Speaker of 2022 BTBA Annual Symposium. Let’s find out what she has shared with us from the special podcast episode!

Time Stamps:

• Speaker Introduction: Dr. Jo Viney (2:14)