PopVax
Gayathri Vijay is a seasoned professional with diverse experience in operations, supply chain management, content development, and research. Currently serving as Senior Manager of Operations and Supply Chain at PopVax since July 2023, Gayathri previously held roles such as Director of Content and Research at HuesoftheMind and Scientific Data and Communications Manager at PopVax. Previous positions include Junior Research Assistant at FrameworX Technologies, Content Writer at IncNut Digital, Project Intern at Sai Life Sciences, and Intern at Syngene International. Gayathri holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Biotechnology from Vellore Institute of Technology.
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PopVax
PopVax is an Indian biotechnology company based in Hyderabad building a novel thermostable, low-cost, and safe second-generation mRNA platform for rationally-designed broadly-protective multi-epitope vaccines. We’re starting with an open-source 4-8 °C refrigerator-stable booster candidate that is intended to protect against the entire sarbecovirus sub-family, including current and future strains of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus which causes COVID-19), and some other beta-coronaviruses such as MERS-CoV. PopVax's work has been funded primarily via collaboration with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (India) and Vitalik Buterin’s Balvi. Our India-based team of 30 researchers and senior manufacturing leaders includes experts in antigen design, mRNA sequence optimization and synthesis, and nucleic acid delivery from top Indian and North American research institutions, including CCMB, CDFD, IIT Delhi, IAVI, Harvard, Scripps, and UBC, as well as vaccine & biologics production veterans from companies including Sanofi, Biocon, Panacea Biotec and Biological E. The smaller scientific team for our US-based subsidiary, PopVax North America, is led by Moderna’s first Director of Chemistry, and includes several leading practitioners of de novo computationally-driven rational protein design for novel vaccine immunogens.