Jessica Langer is a program officer for the Helmsley Charitable Trust’s Crohn’s Disease Program, helping to manage the program’s research grants portfolio and identify new opportunities with a focus on finding novel therapeutics and innovative new strategies to improve quality of life for Crohn’s disease patients. Before joining Helmsley, Langer was an associate principal scientist at L’Oreal, responsible for setting up external collaborations in the areas of skin biology and safety testing, as well as the manager of an internal research lab focused on the study of human skin. Previously, she worked at Chromocell, a start-up biotechnology company, specializing in creating complex cell lines for compound screening