2025 Speakers

I am a biochemist by training, with a strong research background in structural biology and its application to translational research. Over the course of my PhD and Postdoctoral training, I acquired comprehensive technical knowledge of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), x-ray crystallography and...

Dr. Jane M Barratt, Ph.D. is a Global Advisor at the International Federation on Ageing (IFA) an international non-government organisation with general consultative status with the United Nations and its agencies including formal relations with the World Health Organisation (WHO). Population...

Dr. Maria Elena Bottazzi is an internationally recognized tropical and emerging disease vaccinologist, global health advocate and cocreator of a patent-free, open science COVID-19 vaccine technology that led to the development of Corbevax in India and IndoVac in Indonesia, and with approximately...

Ed spent more than 20 years in large pharma (Pfizer, AstraZeneca) and biotech (Scriptgen/Anadys Pharmaceuticals), focussing on both therapeutic and preventive approaches to infections caused by viruses, bacteria and fungi. Over the years his responsibilities increased from bench scientist to...

Marco Cavaleri is the Head of Public Health Threats at the European Medicines Agency (EMA). He leads EMA activities on emerging pathogens, vaccines, and antimicrobial resistance, and previously chaired the EMA’s COVID-19 Taskforce. With extensive experience in both industry and regulatory roles, he ...

Dr. Cooke is CEO of Omniose.  He has over thirty years of experience in the biopharmaceutical industry with a focus on vaccines.  He was previously CEO of NovaDigm Therapeutics, CEO of Mojave Therapeutics, COO at AVANT Immunotherapeutics, and SVP at Ology Bioservices. Prior to his leadership roles...

​​​​​​​Dr. Kyle Doolan leads cross-functional teams in molecular biology, protein engineering and virology that perform experiments for operations and research and development. Kyle has been instrumental in enhancing the performance of Integral Molecular’s technologies and is an inventor on two of...

Carel du Marchie Sarvaas is Executive Director of HealthforAnimals, the global animal health association. HealthforAnimals represents the top 10 global animal health companies developing and manufacturing veterinary vaccines, parasite control products, diagnostics, antibiotics, digital...

​​​​​​​Dr. Christina K. Go earned her Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences from the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University studying membrane protein interactions in T cell activation. Following her dissertation, she completed a research fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania in immunology ...

Dr Bassam Hallis has over 25 years experience in scientific research including 15 years in regulated activities including vaccine evaluation, release/stability and clinical trial serology. He has extensive experience in assay development and validation including cell based and functional assays as...

Mark did graduate work in molecular immunology at Oxford University Institute of Molecular Medicine and Southampton University Cancer Sciences. In his postdoctoral work at MIT he developed tools in chemical biology, advanced microscopy and nanotechnology to understand receptor trafficking. He...

Lennard is an accomplished Oxford University cancer physician and national senior advisor for the cancer vaccine advance in the UK, and chief medical officer at the Ellison Institute of Technology. He is a research scene setter with a successful track record in delivering strategic national health...

Dr. Ofer Levy is principal investigator, staff physician and the Director of the Precision Vaccines Program at Boston Children’s Hospital, Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, and Associate Member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. The Precision Vaccines Program (PVP) is an...

I qualified in Medicine from the University of Oxford in 1980.  After working around the UK in hospital medicine and research, I joined the pharmaceutical industry in 1986.  I am a Fellow of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. For over 30 years I...

Dr. Mats Lundgren is a leading authority in vaccine discovery and development, with over 30 years of experience in the biopharmaceutical industry. His diverse background encompasses a wide range of roles, from scientist to vice president, equipping him with a thorough understanding of the...

Dr. Gerben Marsman obtained his doctorate degree at Sanquin Research (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) and completed a post-doctoral research position at the Max-Planck Institute for Infection Biology (Berlin, Germany). He joined the VFI in 2023 as a Project Manager and is currently Head of Alliance...

Michael Miller, MD is health care policy, communications and advocacy expert with more than 30 years of experience improving access and affordability and the development of innovations. His experience includes:  Working in government organizations including the White House’s Office of Management...

Elise Pepermans obtained her PhD in Biochemistry in the Pasteur Institut in Paris. During her post-doc in the Center for Proteomics (University of Antwerp/Flemish Institut for Technological Research) she developed an optimized workflow for advanced immunopeptidomics. Since March 2023, she is one of ...

Meta Roestenberg is an infectious diseases clinician at Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands  where she leads a group of translational researchers in answering key questions related to host-pathogen interaction by making use of controlled human infection models. Her team pioneered...

Dr. Jerald Sadoff, M.D. as Chief Medical Officer with immediate effect. Dr. Sadoff has more than fifty years of experience in vaccine development. He has overseen or played a key role in the approval of more vaccines than any other currently active vaccine developer, including vaccines against...

Tyler Sandberg is a scientist holding a PhD in vaccine immunology from the Karolinska Institute and a master’s degree in immunology and infection biology from Uppsala University.His doctoral research involved conducting several vaccine studies to examine human immune responses to various flavivirus ...