Senior Vice President, Research and Development
Wayne C. Koff, Ph.D., supervises IAVI’s research and development, overseeing its vaccine design programs, its efforts to address the scientific challenges impeding AIDS vaccine development and directing its product development programs. From 1992-1998, Wayne led vaccine research and development at United Biomedical, Inc., when the company conducted the first AIDS vaccine clinical trials in the developing countries of the People's Republic of China, Thailand, and Brazil. Before joining UBI, he led the team at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases that established the preclinical and clinical AIDS vaccine development programs for the National Institutes of Health. 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.
Wayne is available to comment on the following issues:
- IAVI’s overall program for AIDS vaccine design and development
- The research consortia launched and managed by IAVI
- Current issues in AIDS vaccine design and development and rational, structure-based approaches to the problem
- Vectors for the delivery of AIDS vaccines
- Translational research in vaccine development
- Neutralizing antibodies and HIV’s mechanisms for escaping immune attack and its potential vulnerabilities
- Novel approaches to attacking HIV
- Technologies for vaccine design and development
- Managing research consortia, and the power and potential pitfalls of goal-oriented research