"A Wide-Angle View of Vaccine R&D and Manufacturing"
Donald
F.
Gerson,
Co-Founder
and
CEO
of
PnuVax,
and
CBB
Advisory
Board
Member
will
present
a
talk
on
covering
the
need
for
vaccines,
the
epidemiology
of
infectious
diseases,
vaccine
discovery,
process
development
and
manufacturing
technologies,
the
impact
of
several
vaccines
that
he
has
been
involved
with
through
development
and
manufacturing,
and
the
outcome
of
the
worldwide
vaccination
programs
for
several
diseases.
Dr.
Gerson
received
his
Ph.D.
from
McGill
University,
was
professor
of
biophysics
and
biochemical
engineering
at
the
University
of
Western
Ontario
in
Canada.
He
was
a
Member
of
the
Basel
Institute
for
Immunology
at
Hoffmann
La
Roche
in
Switzerland,
where
he
worked
for
Prof.
Niels
Jerne,
winner
of
the
Nobel
Prize
for
Medicine
in
1984.
If
you
have
any
questions,
please
contact
Krystina
(kbednarowski@uwaterloo.ca)
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