Last year was, it was devastating, we saw the consequences and it was terrifying.

And so what I did in this situation is just being even more determined at what I'm usually

saying, because you see this disaster around you and all you can think about, we need to find a solution, we need to find a solution.

I did not think about failure, I did not think about success, all I thought about is we have to come up with something that stops this pandemic.

I'm Carly Zaken, I'm Danielle Weisberg, welcome to Skim from the couch.

This podcast is where we go deep on career advice from women who have lived it, from the good stuff like hiring and growing a team, to the rough stuff like negotiating your salary and giving or getting hard feedback.

We started the Skim from a couch, so what better place to talk at all out than where it began on a couch.

Welcome to our women's history month series on Skim from the couch, where we're telling you about the women who made history this past year.

Today, our guest is Dr. Catherine Jansen, she is the senior vice president, head of vaccine research and development at Pfizer.

As many of you know doubt now, Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine was authorized in the US in December of 2020.

Catherine was the woman in charge of leading that lightning fast effort to get a COVID vaccine from a lab into people's arms.

And the COVID vaccine isn't the only revolutionary vaccine that Dr. Jansen has developed during her career.

She has also led the development of the HPV vaccine, Gardasil, which is credited as a revolutionary vaccine for women.

We are so excited to have you with us, welcome to Skim from the couch.

Thank you for your nice introduction.

Well, on behalf of literally everyone, we just want to say thank you for your work.

Let's start off with what is something that we can't Google about you or can't find on your professional bio that we should know.

Oh, you start with a difficult question.

I usually don't Google myself, what is not probably widely, widely known, it's just how I went to my career.

Because I think that may be interesting for a future scientist or future leader in this profession.

And I think I would start to say that one has a general idea of what one would like to do with one's life.

And in my case, there was really working in the kind of space of science and medicine with the idea to develop drugs or vaccines that would keep individuals healthy and improve the health of everyone globally.

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