prof. Alfredo Nicosia, University of Naples

Speaker: prof. Alfredo Nicosia, University of Naples (Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Co-founder of Nouscom AG)

Talk: Soon

Time: 23th February 2018, 9:00 am

Venue: Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology, Abrahama 58, hall 042

Prof. Alfredo Nicosia is the Chief Executive Officer(CEO) and Co-founder of Nouscom AG, a biotech company dedicated to the development of next generation immunotherapies to beat cancer (www.nouscom.com). He is also CEO of Reithera srl, a Biotech involved in the development of vector-based anti-infectious vaccines.

Alfredo was a co-founder of Okairos (recently acquired by GSK) and served as the company’s Chief Scientific Officer, contributing to the preclinical and clinical development of a number of vaccines (including vaccines against HCV, Ebola and malaria) and monoclonal antibodies against infectious diseases and cancer.

Alfredo’s experience includes the positions of senior director of the Viral Diseases Vaccine program at Istituto di Ricerche di Biologia Molecolare (IRBM), staff scientist at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany and project leader at the Sclavo Research Centre in Siena, Italy.

He has also published over 150 articles in leading journals on a range of subjects, including viral and bacterial infection and vaccines and holds a number of patents and patent applications.

Alfredo holds a degree in chemistry from the University of Rome, Italy and is a full Professor of Molecular Biology at the University Federico II, Naples (Italy).