Vaccine
Dr. Sotiris Missailidis
Head of Vaccine Innovation Development
Sotiris is managing the vaccine portfolio of the Institute Pasteur and leading the Innovation development of vaccine projects from basic research to clinical development, spin-off activities and industrial partnerships for vaccine-related projects. Sotiris joined the Institute Pasteur in 2024, having previously led for seven years, as a Director of Technological Development and Innovation, the Research, Development and Innovation of vaccines, biologics and diagnostics at Bio-Manguinhos Institute of Technology in Immunobiologics at the Fiocruz Foundation in Brazil.
Sotiris brings 30 years of experience in applied research focused on the development of vaccines, therapeutic and diagnostic applications. He is a trained Biologist, with MSc and DPhil in Chemistry from the University of York and post-doctoral studies in Pharmaceutical Sciences (Nottingham) and Molecular biology (Cambridge) in the UK. He was an academic at the Open University, UK, visiting professor at the Universities of Lisbon (Portugal) and Paris (France), as well as UFRJ and UERJ in Brazil and EACR fellow at the University of Patras (Greece). He was founder and director of Euzoia Ltd (UK) and Naxos DNA Services (Brazil) and Senior Researcher at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC) and Bio-Manguinhos at Fiocruz.