Boris Minev | President, Medical & Scientific Affairs
Calidi Biotherapeutics

Dr. Minev is a highly accomplished physician-scientist with extensive industrial and academic experience in Immuno-Oncology, oncolytic viruses and stem cell biology and applications. He has a significant track record in tumor immunology and cancer vaccine development, having worked closely on the development of the first cancer vaccine to be approved by a regulatory body (Melacine). Dr. Minev has also extensive expertise in immunotherapy clinical trial designs, logistics, and regulatory issues.

He has a considerable supervision & management experience in industrial and academic settings and has excellent skills in biotech business development, communication, and collaboration. Previously he held a position as the Director of Immunotherapy and Translational Oncology at Genelux Corporation, where he was directing several preclinical and translational projects on oncolytic virotherapy, immunotherapy, and nanotechnology. Dr. Minev is also an adjunct professor at the Moores UCSD Cancer Center. There, he served previously as Principal Investigator and Director, Laboratory of Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy where, for more than 15 years, his research has been focused on the discovery of new target antigens for immunotherapy of cancer and the development of optimized cancer vaccines. Prior to that, Dr. Minev worked in Dr. Steven Rosenberg’s Tumor Immunology Section at the Surgery Branch of the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Minev is an Advisory Board Member of the European Society for Translational Medicine (EUSTM).

He is a member of the Scientific and Clinical Advisory Boards of several biotechnology companies and has been an advisor for Amgen, Johnson & Johnson, Geron Corporation, McKinsey Consulting and Thomson Current Drugs, among others. He is the recipient of the European Association of Cancer Research Fellowship and the Fogarty International Fellowship. Dr. Minev is a graduate of the Medical School in Sofia, Bulgaria. He completed post-doctoral training at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel and the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health. He also served 15 years as a full-time member of the University of California, San Diego faculty and the Moores UCSD Cancer Center prior to joining the biotechnology industry in 2010.