Provention Bio, Inc. announced the appointment of Rita Jain, M.D., to the Company's Board of Directors. Dr. Jain is a biotechnology industry veteran with more than two decades of experience in pharmaceutical development across her time with ChemoCentryx, Inc., AbbVie, Abbott Laboratories, and G.D. Searle and Co. prior to the latter's merger with Pharmacia & Upjohn and subsequent acquisition by Pfizer.

Dr. Jain, a board-certified rheumatologist, currently serves as a member of the supervisory board of AM Pharma and previously served on the Board of Directors of ChemoCentryx, Inc. until its acquisition by Amgen. She previously served as Executive Vice President, Chief Medical Officer of ChemoCentryx, Inc., Chief Medical Officer of Immunovant, Inc. and prior to that, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Akebia Therapeutics, Inc. Before joining Akebia, Dr. Jain served as Vice President of Men's and Women's Health and Metabolic Development at AbbVie, Inc., where she was responsible for leading the design and execution of multiple late-stage programs, including for Orilissa® and Oriahnn®, and in various leadership roles at Abbott Laboratories, including Divisional Vice President. She has also led programs across a diverse set of therapeutic areas, including inflammation, pain, immunology, and nephrology.

Prior to her time at Abbott, she held management positions in the Arthritis, Inflammation and Pain Group at G.D. Searle, which was acquired by Pharmacia and, later, Pfizer. Earlier in her career, Dr. Jain served as a faculty member at North Shore University Hospital in New York. Dr. Jain received her M.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook School of Medicine and her B.S. in Biology from Long Island University/C.W. Post.