Joanne Hsieh, PhD

Head of Metabolism at Gordian Biotechnology

Speaker

Joanne Hsieh, PhD leads Gordian Biotechnology’s Metabolism program, which encompasses novel target discovery and development efforts in adipose- and liver-related indications. During her tenure, Gordian has screened over 300 gene targets in visceral adipose tissue in vivo to date, and has ongoing small molecule development programs pursuing novel non-incretin obesity targets. Joanne did her PhD work on the glucagon-like peptides at the University of Toronto. She did her postdoctoral training and held a faculty position at Columbia University. Over the course of her scientific career, Joanne has investigated atherosclerosis, dyslipidemia, diabetes, metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis, and obesity. She has first author publications in pre-eminent journals including Gastroenterology, Journal of Hepatology, and Nature. Joanne was also a cofounder of Fortico Biotech, which developed small molecules to tackle MASH.