R&D + Strategic Partnering
for the Global Vaccine Industry

Dr. Angelidou is a Board-certified Neonatologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston, MA), Principal Investigator and Clinical Lead at the Precision Vaccines Program (PVP) in Boston Children’s Hospital, and Assistant Professor in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. She obtained her...

Georges C. Benjamin, MD, is a well-known health policy leader, practitioner, and administrator. He currently serves as the executive director of the American Public Health Association, the nation's oldest and largest organization of public health professionals. He is also a former secretary of...

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...

Alison Buttenheim is Professor of Nursing and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania, where she co-directs the Behavioral Economics and Global Health Insights (BEGIN) Lab and serves as Behavioral Design Lead for the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics. Her research...

Dr. Christensen was recently appointed as Global Head of R&D for Adjuvant Systems at Croda Pharma after 18 years in adjuvant research at Statens Serum Institut, Denmark. During his career, his research focus has been on pharmaceutical and immunological aspects of vaccine adjuvants and delivery...

Christian has been at the cutting edge of mRNA drug discovery for over fifteen years. He has extensive experience leading teams in mRNA technology and was the first Alexion Pharmaceuticals scientist working on their partnership with Moderna Therapeutics to develop mRNA therapeutics. He has directed ...

Wayland Coker is the Chief Supply Chain Strategist and Director of the Supply Chain Optimization Office within IBMSC (Industrial Base Management & Supply Chain) at ASPR. He is a retired U.S. Naval Officer with tours aboard an attack submarine during the Cold War, a supply ship supporting...

Demetre Daskalakis, MD, MPH, is the Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD). As director of NCIRD, Dr. Daskalakis leads CDC’s efforts to detect, prevent, and respond to vaccine-preventable and respiratory infectious disease threats. Most recently, he...

Swati Gupta, DrPH, MPH, leads IAVI’s Emerging Infectious Disease product portfolio and the development of the organization’s overall scientific strategy. She has a particular focus in leveraging IAVI’s recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus (rVSV) platform and expertise to expand product...

Professor Sir Adrian Hill founded The Jenner Institute at the University of in 2005, one of the largest academic vaccine centres globally with vaccine programmes against fifteen diseases. The Institute focuses on designing and developing vaccines for diseases prevalent in developing countries such...

Richard Hughes IV, J.D., M.P.H. is a Partner at the Washington, D.C. health care law firm, Epstein, Becker & Green and a Professorial Lecturer in Law at the The George Washington University Law School. His practice, teaching and thought leadership focus on access to preventive health...

Ashley is the Founder and CEO of Torigen Pharmaceuticals—a startup that resulted from her graduate thesis project at the University of Notre Dame. Ashley graduated from the University of Connecticut in 2012 with an undergraduate degree in Pathobiology and then chose to continue her...

Dr. Klein is a Professor of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, and International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Department of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She co-directs the Johns Hopkins Center for...

Luigi Lay graduated in Chemistry in 1990 and was awarded a PhD in Chemical Sciences in 1994 at the University of Milan, working on the synthesis of Streptococcus pneumoniae capsular polysaccharide fragments. After an EU-funded post-doctoral fellowship in the research group of Prof. Richard...

Alessandro Manenti graduated in Biology obtaining his Bachelor’s Degree in 2009 and a Master’s Degree in Molecular Evolution in 2013 at the University of Siena. He worked for six months in a big company in the field of Life Sciences. In November 2013, he won a competition for PhD students in...

I am a Senior Advisor in R&D in GSK Vaccines, since 2018, and a GSK Fellow, since 2019. Prior to this I was the Global Head of Discovery Support and New Technology in GSK Vaccines. Until 2015, I was the Global Head of Vaccine Chemistry and Formulation Research for Novartis Vaccines. I have...

Dr. Masaru “Rusty” Oshita, is a board-certified Emergency Medicine physician with extensive experience in patient care and entrepreneurship. He runs a network of Urgent Care centers throughout Sacramento and is dedicated to providing thoughtfulmedical care in the community. Dr Oshita is recognized...

Marlen Ramirez serves as Vaccinate Your Family’s Program Coordinator supporting VYF’s advocacy and education work. Marlen is an experienced Community Health Worker (CHW) and Community Health Worker Instructor (CHWI). She is a passionate advocate for health promotion and health equity, evidenced by...

Ruben Rizzi, physician by training, SVP of Global Regulatory Affairs at BioNTech. I joined the company in December 2019 just before the pandemic, and I have been the global regulatory lead for BioNTech for our COVID-19 development. Currently, I am still supporting the lifecycle of our COVID-19...

Dr. Sebo graduated Iowa State University in 2015 with a Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine (DVM). In 2011 she received a double major in Biology and Animal Science from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Dr. Sebo has worked with the Sequivity® Technology since 2013, leading the field expertise...

Angela K. Shen, ScD, MPH Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Medicine and Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics University of Pennsylvania, and retired Captain in the US Public Health Service.  Dr. Shen is a vaccine policy expert and health services researcher...

Denise Octavia Smith, MBA, CHW, PN is the inaugural Executive Director of the National Association of Community Health Workers, Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care Program in Global Primary Care and Social Change, Aspen Institute Healthy Communities Fellow, and a...

Dr. Snowden joined GlaxoSmithKline in 2015 where she has held both global and US medical affairs appointments. She currently serves as Medical Director, Vaccines Clinical & Medical Affairs, US for the adult RSV portfolio. Dr. Snowden holds bachelor’s degrees in biology and chemistry from Howard ...

Thomas Tillett – Cofounder and CEO of MBF Therapeutics, an immunotherapeutics company that has developed and patented an innovative, proprietary T-Max™ DNA vaccine platform to deliver commercial protective vaccines that provide safe, durable, heterologous protection against endemic, emerging and...

Mr. Steve Witte is the Biologics Development Module, or BDM, director for the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF), which will be operated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).In this role, he and his team directly support and accelerate technology transfers of veterinary...