Alison Tisdale, PhD

Advisor

Alison Tisdale is the Chief Scientific Officer, Sera Medicines. Previously, as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Raven, she focussed on the discovery and development of novel biologics. Alison was the Vice President of Therapeutic Discovery at Seeker Biologics, where she led the development of a high-throughput functional screening platform for multi-specific biologics, and oversaw discovery efforts for the company’s pipeline of antibodies targeting pathologic cell types in autoimmune diseases. Before that, Alison was a founding employee at Immunitas Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biotech, where she built their discovery and engineering platform and helped shepherd the company’s lead immuno-oncology program into the clinic. Alison has also held roles leading programs and teams at other biotech startups including Generate Biomedicines and Eleven Biotherapeutics. She has a BS and MS in Chemical Engineering and earned her PhD in Biological Engineering from MIT.