Robert W Malone, M.D., M.S.

Conference Chair

Vaccines and Biotechnology,
RW Malone MD, LLC: Consultancy and Analytics in the Biosector

Geert vanden Bossche, Ph.D, DVM

Advisory Board

Vaccine Discovery & Preclinical Research

Farshad Guirakhoo, Ph.D.

Advisory Board

Chief Scientific Officer, Covaxx and Vaxxinity

Adrian V. S. Hill, M.D., Ph.D.

Keynote Speaker

Director, The Jenner Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford

Nicholas Jackson, M.D., Ph.D.

Featured speaker

Head of Programs & Technology, R&D, CEPI

Kate Broderick, Ph.D.

Featured speaker

Senior Vice President, R&D, Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Tal Zaks, M.D., Ph.D

Keynote Speaker

Chief Medical Officer,
Moderna

Nikolai Petrovsky, Ph.D.

Keynote Speaker

Director of Endocrinology,
Flinders University

Jay A. Berzofsky, M.D., Ph.D.

Keynote Speaker

Chief, Vaccine Branch,
Center for Cancer Research,
National Cancer Institute

David Weiner, M.D., Ph.D.

Keynote Speaker

Executive Vice President, Director, Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center,
The Wistar Institute

Stephen L. Hoffman, M.D.

Keynote speaker

Chief Executive and Scientific Officer
Sanaria Inc.

Nancy Sullivan, Ph.D.

Keynote speaker

Senior Investigator, Chief, Biodefense Research Section, VRC/NIAID/NIH

Shan Lu, M.D., Ph.D.

Keynote speaker

Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, President Emeritus and Fellow, International Society for Vaccines

Dan Barouch, M.D., Ph.D.

Keynote speaker

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard, Director, Center for Virology and Vaccine Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Lenny Moise, M.D., Ph.D.

Keynote speaker

Director of Vaccine Research, EpiVax, Inc.

Marylyn Addo, MD, PhD

Featured speaker

Professor, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Head of Infectious Disease at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf

Kathy Rowlen, Ph.D.

Featured speaker

CEO at InDevR Inc.

David E. Wentworth, Ph.D.

Featured speaker

Director, WHO Collaborating Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology and Control of Influenza, Chief, Virology Surveillance and Diagnosis Branch, CDC

Samir N. Khleif, M.D.

Keynote speaker

Director, Jeannie and Tony Loop Immuno-Oncology Research Laboratory, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center

Nathalie Garçon, PharmD, Ph.D.

Keynote speaker

Chief Executive and Scientific Officer, CEO/CSO, IRT BIOASTER

Daniel F. Hoft, M.D., Ph.D.

Keynote speaker

Director, Division of Infectious Diseases, Allergy & Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, Saint Louis University Medical Center

Genoveffa Franchini, M.D.

Keynote speaker

Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute (NCI), AMRVS, Vaccine Branch, National Institutes of Health

Barbara K. Felber, M.D.

Keynote speaker

Senior Investigator, Vaccine Branch, NCI/CCR

Stefan H.E. Kaufmann, Ph.D.

Keynote Speaker

Director Emeritus, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology

Thomas Breuer, M.D., M.Sc.

Keynote speaker

Senior Vice President & Chief Medical Officer, GSK Vaccines

Alexander Bukreyev Ph.D.

Keynote speaker

Departments of Pathology and Microbiology & Immunology, Galveston National Laboratory, University of Texas Medical Branch

Barney Graham, M.D., Ph.D.

Keynote Speaker

Deputy Director, Vaccine Research Center, Chief, Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory and Translational Science Core

Derek O’Hagan, Ph.D.

Featured Speaker

Senior Advisor R&D, GSK Vaccines

Trudy G Morrison, Ph.D.

Featured speaker

Professor
UMass Medical School

Shahin Gharakhanian, M.D.

Featured speaker

Pharmaceutical Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Shahin Gharakhanian MD Consulting LLC

Kevin P Killeen, Ph.D.

Featured speaker

Chief Scientific Officer
Matrivax

Denise L Faustman, M.D., Ph.D.

Featured speaker

Director of Immunobiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

M. Gordon Joyce, Ph.D.

Featured speaker

Chief, Structural Biology, (HJF), (MHRP), (EIDB), Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR)

Andrew Lees, Ph.D.

Featured speaker

Scientific Director
Fina BioSolutions

Alexandre Le Vert, Ph.D.

Featured speaker

Président et Cofondateur, Executive Chairman and Cofounder, OSIVAX

Marie-Claire Gauduin, Ph.D.

Featured speaker

Associate Professor, Disease Intervention and Prevention, Core Scientist, Southwest National Primate Research Center, Texas Biomedical Research Institute

Christian Harding, Ph.D.

Featured speaker

Co-Founder & CEO
VaxNewMo

Frédéric DESCHAMPS, Ph.D.

Featured speaker

Department of Occupational Health, REIMS

Robert DeWitte, Ph.D.

Featured speaker

Co-Founder & CEO
Elarex Inc

Merlin L. Robb, M.D.

Featured speaker

Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, HJF; Senior Investigator, MHRP and EIDB, WRAIR

Yongjun Sui, Ph.D.

Featured speaker

Staff Scientist, Vaccine Branch, Molecular Immunogenetics and Vaccine Research Section, National Cancer Institute, National Institute of health

Ewan Plant, Ph.D.

Featured speaker

Research Biologist, CBER, Office of Vaccines Research & Review, U.S. FDA

Purnima Dubey, Ph.D.

Featured speaker

Associate Professor, Department/Division, Microbial Infection & Immunity, The Ohio State University

Amy Rosenberg, M.D.

Featured speaker

Director, Division of Biotechnology Review and Research III, Office of Pharmaceutical Quality, Office of Biotechnology Products, US FDA

Nicolas Çuburu, M.D.

Featured speaker

Staff Scientist, Laboratory of Cellular Oncology, National Cancer Institute, Center for Cancer Research

M. Javad Aman, Ph.D.

Featured speaker

President and Chief Scientific Officer, Integrated BioTherapeutics Inc

Gabriel Gutierrez, M.D.

Featured speaker

Scientific Director, Explorations in Global Health (ExGloH)

David J. Dowling, M.D.

Featured speaker

Principal Investigator, Precision Vaccines Program, Research Associate, Division of Infectious Diseases, Boston Children's Hospital, & Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Ali I. Fattom, M.D.

Featured speaker

Sr. Vice President of Vaccine R&D, BlueWillow Biologics

Joost Oppenheim, M.D.

Featured speaker

Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Cancer Immunometabolism, Head, Cellular Immunology Section, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute

Janet Lathey, Ph.D.

Featured speaker

Program Officer, Biodefense Vaccines and other Biological Products Development Section Office of Biodefense, Research Resources, and Translational Research (OBRRTR) DMID/NIAID/NIH

Marie G. Mazur, Ph.D.

Featured speaker

Strategic Partner, Partnership for Influenza Vaccine Introduction (PIVI)

De-chu Christopher Tang, Ph.D.

Featured speaker

Founder CEO; VaxDome Inc.

T.-C. Wu, M.D., Ph.D.

Featured speaker

Professor and Director of Gynecologic Pathology, Professor of Oncology, Obstetrics & Gynecology, and Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, Johns Hopkins University

Thomas Tillett, M.D., Ph.D.

Featured speaker

CEO, MBF Therapeutics

Carl R. Alving, M.D.

Featured speaker

Emeritus Senior Scientist, Laboratory of Adjuvant & Antigen Research, U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research

Giulio Tarro, Ph.D.

Featured speaker

Presidente della Fondazione de Beaumont Bonelli per le ricerche sul cancro - ONLUS, Napoli

Kwong Y Tsang, Ph.D.

Featured speaker

Laboratory of Tumor Immunology and Biology, National Cancer Institute, NIH

Stephen Albert Johnston

Featured speaker

CEO, Calviri, Inc

Francisco Diaz-Mitoma, M.D., Ph.D.

Featured speaker

Chief Medical Officer, VBI Vaccines

Jorge Blanco, Ph.D.

Featured speaker

President, Sigmovir Biosystems, Inc.

Renhuan Xu, Ph.D.

Featured speaker

Senior Scientist, Immunomic Therapeutics, Inc.

Jiang Zhu, Ph.D.

Featured speaker

Associate Professor, Integrative Structural and Computational Biology & Immunology and Microbiology, The Scripps Research Institute

Magdalena Tary-Lehmann,
M.D., Ph.D.

Featured speaker

Chief Scientific Officer, Cellular Technology Limited

Joseph A. Vetro, Ph.D.

Featured speaker

Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Nebraska Medical Center

Geoffrey Lynn, Ph.D.

Featured speaker

Chief Executive Officer and co-founder, Avidea Technologies, Inc

Yujian Zhang, Ph.D.

Featured speaker

Scientific Leader,
ARD/TRD, GSK Vaccine

Hangwen Li, Ph.D.

Featured speaker

CEO
Stemirna Therapeutics

Jerald Sadoff, M.D.

Featured speaker

Senior Advisor Vaccine Development, Janssen Vaccines & Prevention B.V.

Kar Muthumani, Ph.D.

Featured speaker

Associate Professor of Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center, Director-Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases, The Wistar Institute

Daniel W. Kulp, Ph.D.

Featured speaker

Associate Professor, Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute

Matthew James Bottomley, Ph.D.

Featured speaker

Function Head, Vaccine Design and Characterization, (Preclinical R&D-US), GSK

Moriya Tsuji, M.D., Ph.D.

Featured speaker

Professor of Medicine, Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Louis D. Falo, Jr., MD, Ph.D.

Featured speaker

Chairman, Department of Dermatology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Mark C Poznansky, MD, Ph.D.

Featured speaker

Director, Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center, Infectious Disease Division, Massachusetts General Hospital

Alessandro Sette, MD, Ph.D.

Featured speaker

Professor and Member, Infectious Disease and Vaccine Center, La Jolla Institute for Immunology

Mark Connors, Ph.D.

Featured speaker

Chief, HIV-Specific Immunity Section, NIAID/LIR

Jeffrey I. Cohen, M.D.

Featured speaker

Senior Investigator, Medical Virology Section, NIAID/DIR

Anders Lija, Ph.D.

Featured speaker

Senior Vice President, Infectious Diseases, HOOKIPA Pharma

Deborah Fuller, Ph.D.

Featured speaker

Professor, Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Division Chief, Infectious Diseases and Translational Medicine, Washington National Primate Research Center

Jay Rappaport, Ph.D.

Featured speaker

Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Director and Chief Academic Officer, Tulane National Primate Research Center

Scot Roberts, Ph.D.

Featured speaker

Chief Scientific Officer, Altimmune, Inc.

Tom Hope, Ph.D.

Featured speaker

Postdoctoral Researcher at Allen Institute for AI (AI2)

Sylvie Alonso, Ph.D.

Featured speaker

Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases research program, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine; Immunology program, Life Sciences Institute, National University of Singapore

Jason D. Marshall, Ph.D.

Featured speaker

Scientific Manager II, Cancer ImmunoPrevention Laboratory, Leidos Biomedical Research Inc., Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research

Vjollca Konjufca, Ph.D.

Featured speaker

Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, Southern Illinois University

J. Milburn Jessup, MD, FACS

Featured speaker

Research Scientist, Research and Development Division, Washington DC VAMC

Brent M. Peterson, PhD, MS, MPH

Featured speaker

Associate Professor and Stewart Honors Research Fellow in the School of Science, Technology, and Health, Biola University

Paolo Lusso, M.D., Ph.D.

Featured speaker

Chief, Section of Viral Pathogenesis, Laboratory of Immunoregulation, NIAID/NIH

Ted C. Pierson, Ph.D.

Featured speaker

Senior Investigator, Chief, Laboratory of Viral Diseases, NIAID, NIH

Anindita Banerjee, PhD, MS, MPH

Featured speaker

ICMR-National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata, India

Raches Ella, MBBS, MS

Featured speaker

Project Lead SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines, Head - Business Development & Advocacy, Bharat Biotech

Stefan Metz, PhD, MSc

Featured speaker

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, UNC School of Medicine

Varun Dwivedi, PhD

Featured speaker

Staff Scientist I | Dr. Joanne Turner's Lab | Disease Intervention & Prevention, Texas Biomedical Research Institute

Daniela Weiskopf, PhD

Featured speaker

Research Assistant Professor, Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research, La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI)

Gregory C. Gray, MD, MPH, FIDSA

Featured speaker

Professor at Duke University Duke University’s School of Medicine, USA; Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, and Duke Kunshan University, China

Tomáš Hanke, MD, MPH, FIDSA

Featured speaker

Professor of Vaccine Immunology, The Jenner Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford

Jim Pannucci, PhD

Featured speaker

Vice President Leidos Explorations in Global Health & CEO of ImmTide

Masaru Kanekiyo, DVM, PhD

Featured speaker

Head, Molecular Immunoengineering Unit, Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory, Vaccine Research Center, NIAID/NIH

Weina Sun

Featured speaker

Postdoctoral Fellow at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

William R. Hartman, MD, PhD

Featured speaker

Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Niko Morozov, MD, PhD

Featured speaker

MS2 at Sackler School of Medicine

Colonel. Caesar A. Junker, MD

Featured speaker

Chief of the Human Performance Mission, DOD Joint AI Center

Nicola Ternette, MD

Featured speaker

Associate Professor, Antigen Discovery, University of Oxford, The Jenner Institute, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Physiology (CCMP)

Stephan Thorgrimsen, PhD

Featured speaker

Chief Executive Officer, Immunitrack

Taia T Wang, MD, PhD

Featured speaker

Assistant Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine

Raymond P. Goodrich, PhD

Featured speaker

Executive Director, Infectious Disease Research Center, Office of the Vice President for Research, Professor, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University

Laura M.Walker, PhD

Featured speaker

Director of Antibody Sciences, Adimab, LLC

Sean M. Sullivan, PhD

Featured speaker

Executive Director, Arcturus Therapeutics, Inc.

Pamela Bjorkman, PhD

Featured speaker

David Baltimore Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering, Division of Biology and Biological Engineering California Institute of Technology

Nicolas Poirier, PhD

Featured speaker

Chief Scientific Officer, OSE Immuno Therapeutics

Jim Koopman, MD, MPH

Featured speaker

Professor Emeritus, Epidemiology, Developing Theory that Serves Public Health, University of Michigan, School of Public Health

Thomas A. Waldmann, MD, MPH

Featured speaker

Chief Emeritus, Lymphoid Malignancies Branch, NIH Distinguished Investigator, Head, Cytokine Immunology and Immunotherapy Section, Center for Cancer Research /NCI

Priyanka Ray

Featured speaker

Researcher, University of Maryland, Baltimore