Jean Paul Prieels
Medicine
Themis Bioscience
Austria
Biography
After ten years at academia, Jean Paul Prieels started his industrial career at Petrofina in 1983 as Biotechnology Manager and joined GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals in 1987. His responsibilities gradually expanded to lead the vaccine preclinical R&D development activities in Rixensart, Belgium. He retired as Senior Vice President of Research & Development at GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals in 2011. His career spans from basic research to applied research and product development. He was instrumental in the development of several commercially available vaccines, such as Rotarix, Cervarix and Synflorix. Today he is involved as director or member of the advisory board in biotechs and non-profit organizations. Jean Paul Prieels holds a PhD in Biochemistry from Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
Research Interest
Pharmaceutics
