The chair of a scientific review board in 2024 who informs the geneticist Adam Soong that his illegal experiments have cost him his licence and his funding.
Dr. Diane Werner appears in the second-season Picard episode Fly Me to the Moon. She is played by Lea Thompson, who directed two other episodes of the season.
Adam Soong, desperate to cure his daughter Kore of a fatal sensitivity to sunlight, is called before a review panel by video link. Werner, speaking for the committee, tells him that his work on human subjects and banned genetic techniques has broken its rules. The panel revokes his research licence and cuts off his funding.
The ruling leaves Soong without resources at the very moment Q arrives with an offer of help. That bargain leads him to try to sabotage the Europa mission and sets him on the path that would have made him a founding figure of the Confederation.