Jonathan Smith

Jonathan Smith, Ph.D., is a molecular virologist and immunologist with 40 years of experience in the development of vaccines and vaccine technologies. He serves as Chief Scientific Officer at VLP Therapeutics. His career has bridged academia, government, and biotech, and in the last 20 years, he has been the CSO of four different biotechnology companies. Dr. Smith has been a pioneer in the design and development of self-amplifying RNA vaccine vectors and has developed other vaccine technologies from basic research to FDA licensure. He has over 30 issued patents and over 100 published research papers. Dr. Smith earned his Ph.D. in microbiology/virology from the University of Texas at Austin.