Jean-Paul Prieels

Jean-Paul Prieels holds a PhD in Biochemistry from Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. He started his industrial career at Petrofina in 1983 as Biotechnology Manager and joined GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals in 1987. His responsibilities gradually expanded to lead the vaccine preclinical R&D development activities as Senior Vice President of Research & Development at GlaxoSmithKline Biological in Rixensart, Belgium, until 2011. His career spans from basic research to applied research and product development. He was instrumental in the development of several commercially available vaccines, such as Rotarix, Cervarix and Synflorix. Today he is Director at Vaximm AG, Abivax SA, Promethera Biosciences, Pluriomics, Themis, Leukocare, Nouscom, Ogeda, Q-Biologicals SA, DNAlytics and PDC*Line Pharma. He is member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Singapore Bioprocessing Technology Institute, CureVac and MolMed SPA and member of the European Vaccine Initiative Board of Stakeholders.