Luis Rios-Nogales Garces

Dr. Luis Rios-Nogales Garces currently is the Chief Medical Officer managing Non-Clinical and Clinical Development, Regulatory Affairs, R&D Quality Assurance, Vaccine Safety, and Corporate Procurement. Prior to joining Rational Vaccines, Dr. Rios-Nogales served as Head of Global Development Operations at Takeda Vaccines. He has over 30 years of experience, with increasing senior roles in Clinical, Medical Affairs, Global Marketing, Regional Medical Office, Commercial and General Management at Sanofi, GSK and Astra Zeneca. Dr. Rios-Nogales was also Senior Vice President of Med Surg at Boston Scientific Corporation between 2006–2009. He has made a significant impact on the prevention and treatment of stroke, hypertension, Afib, CHF and VTD, through his active participation in large scale clinical projects. Notably, he was the Global Project Lead for the landmark Heart Outcomes Prevention Evaluation (HOPE) study, under the leadership of Professor Salim Yusuf of McMaster University.