Date: 2013-01-08
Type of information: Nomination
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Company: Hoopika Biotech (Austria)
Therapeutic area: Cancer - Oncology - Infectious diseases
Type agreement: nomination
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Details: * On January 8, 2013, Hookipa Biotech announced the formation of its Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). The SAB is chaired by Emeritus Prof. Dr. Paul-Henri Lambert (PhD), former Chief of Vaccine Research and Development for the WHO Global Program for Vaccines and Immunizations. The members include Emeritus Prof. Dr. Stanley Plotkin (MD), Dr. Michael Mach (PhD)is Professor for Virology at the Institute of Virology, University Erlangen-Nürnberg. His research interest centers on Herpes virus envelope glycoproteins with emphasis on viral morphogenesis and the humoral immune response. Dr. Mach has studied pharmacy and received his PhD from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. Following a post-doctoral stay at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA, Dr. Mach returned to the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg as Professor for Virology in 1993. Dr. Arnaud Marchant (MD, PhD), Université Libre de Bruxelles, is conducting research in the field of infectious disease and vaccine immunology. He developed a research program in early-life immunology during his post-doctoral stay at the Medical Research Council Laboratories, The Gambia, and Weatherall Institute for Molecular Medicine, Oxford. He is currently a senior research associate at the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, Belgium, and heads a research group at the Institute for Medical Immunology of the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Dr. Marchant is also Scientific Director of ImmuneHealth, a non-profit research center specialized in clinical immunology.
Prof. Dr. Michael Mach (PhD), Dr. Arnaud Marchant (MD, PhD) and Prof. Dr. Franz Heinz (PhD). The SAB will provide expert advice to the Company on a broad range of topics related to research, development, manufacturing, quality control, medical, regulatory, and commercial aspects of the Company’s Vaxwave® platform and specific vaccine targets.
Dr. Paul-Henri Lambert led the Immunology Research and Training Program of the WHO, and as professor in the Department of Pathology, University of Geneva, supervised the associated research laboratories at the Universities of Geneva and Lausanne (1975-1987). In 1987, he was appointed Chief of Microbiology and Immunology at WHO; since 1994, he was Chief of Vaccine Research and Development for the WHO Global Program for Vaccines and Immunizations.
He is directly associated with the Center of Vaccinology, at the University of Geneva. Dr. Paul-Henri Lambert is now also Director of the International Advanced Course of Vaccinology organized by the Fondation Mérieux and University of Geneva, a member of several international scientific boards, and is author or co-author of over 400 publications.
Dr. Stanley A. Plotkin is Emeritus Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Adjunct Professor at the Johns Hopkins University. Until 1991, he was Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology at the University of Pennsylvania, Professor of Virology at the Wistar Institute, and at the same time Director of Infectious Diseases and Senior Physician at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. In 1991, Dr. Plotkin left the University to join the vaccine company Pasteur-Mérieux-Connaught (now known as Sanofi Pasteur), based at Marnes-la-Coquette, outside Paris, where he was Medical and Scientific Director for seven years. Currently, Dr. Plotkin is consultant to vaccine manufacturers, biotechnology companies, and non-profit research organizations as principal of Vaxconsult, LLC.
Dr. Franz X. Heinz is Full Professor of Virology at the Medical University of Vienna and since 2004 Director of the Department of Virology. His major research achievements and interests are in the area of flaviviruses, including vaccine development, molecular antigenic structure and immune responses, mechanisms of virus entry and viral epidemiology. From 1987 to 1993 Dr. Heinz was a member of the WHO steering committee for the development of dengue and Japanese encephalitis vaccines and from 2006 to 2011 he served on the Scientific Advisory Board of the vaccine manufacturer Intercell. Currently Franz X. Heinz is a member of the National Academy of Germany ‘Leopoldina’ and a core member of the European Academy of Microbiology, as well as a member of the Scientific Advisory Boards of the Robert-Koch Institute in Berlin and the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg.
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