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Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Geron

Faye says she is driven by her prior experience as an attending hematologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where she learned that less than 50 percent of patients characterized as having a lower-risk of progression respond to frontline therapies. Of those who do, most relapse within two years. Faye thus sought and seized opportunities to play a lead role in clinical development aimed at advancing new treatment options. As a result, Geron’s Rytelo (imetelstat) was granted FDA approval in 2024 for the treatment of adult patients with transfusion-dependent anemia. 

“As a leader of a biotech company, I live the very intense day-to-day focus and grind required to keep my organization and myself executing with excellence, following the data and science to innovate, keeping patients first, leading with integrity, interacting with authenticity – all while facing the challenges, setbacks, and timelines intrinsic to drug development. Reading about lives impacted by successful drug development journeys that have come before ours helps me keep the perspective that it’s a privilege to come to work every day with the opportunity to improve care for patients and advance science.”