Vice President of Vaccine Design, AIDS Vaccine Design & Development Laboratory
Charlotte Raymond/IAVI
C. Richter (Rick) King is Vice President of Vaccine Design for IAVI’s AIDS Vaccine Design & Development Laboratory. Rick is an accomplished scientist whose career spans government, academia and industry. As former Senior Vice President of Research at GenVec, Inc., he led the company's efforts in the identification, selection and advancement of products for cancer, ocular and infectious disease applications. He now leads IAVI's global efforts to design and prioritize novel AIDS vaccine strategies. Rick has been the author and recipient of many peer reviewed grants and is listed as an inventor on 12 issued patents. He received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from Johns Hopkins University and his BS from the University of St. Andrews.
Rick is available to comment on the following issues:
- Recent advances in AIDS vaccine research and development
- HIV vaccine approaches, including the approaches employed by IAVI
- IAVI’s AIDS vaccine design efforts
- IAVI’s AIDS Vaccine Design and Development Laboratory
- IAVI’s international network of HIV vaccine research partnerships
- Vectors for the delivery of AIDS vaccines
- The role of industry in AIDS vaccine R&D