Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer

Wayne C. Koff, Ph.D., is internationally recognized in the field of AIDS vaccine research and development. Wayne has been honored twice by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services with the Special Act of Service Award for developing innovative strategies for accelerating global efforts in AIDS vaccine development. At IAVI, he supervises R&D, leading vaccine discovery programs focused on addressing the major scientific challenges impeding AIDS vaccine development, and directing IAVI's product development programs which have advanced six vaccine concepts to clinical trials. From 1992-1998, he served as vice president, Vaccine Research and Development, at United Biomedical, Inc. (UBI), where he was responsible for its vaccine R&D program. During his tenure at UBI, the company conducted the first AIDS vaccine clinical trials in the developing countries of the People's Republic of China, Thailand, and Brazil. From 1988-1992, he served as chief of the Vaccine Research and Development Branch, Division of AIDS, at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), where he led the team that established the preclinical and clinical AIDS vaccine development programs for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). An adjunct professor in the Department of Microbiology at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, Wayne has published 85 scientific papers and edited seven books on vaccine development. He received his B.A. from Washington University and his Ph.D. from Baylor College of Medicine