George Siber

About George Siber

George R. Siber, MD is an internationally recognized vaccine expert with 40 years of experience in developing numerous innovative vaccines. From 1975 to 1996, Dr Siber served on the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University as Assistant and Associate Professor of Medicine based at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Concurrently, from 1982 to 1996, Dr Siber was Director of the Massachusetts Biologic Laboratories. Under his leadership the laboratory developed specific immune globulins to CMV (Cytogam) and to RSV (Respigam) the precursor product to Synagis, both of which were licensed to MedImmune. From 1996 to 2007, Dr. Siber was Executive Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer of Wyeth Vaccines Research, overseeing a staff of 800 scientists in the development, approval and marketing of six innovative childhood vaccines including Prevenar 7, the first pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, Meningitec, the first Meningococcal C conjugate vaccine, Rotashield, the first rotavirus vaccine and FluMist, the first live nasal influenza vaccine. Prevenar 7 and its follow-on product, Prevenar 13, have significantly reduced the burden of pneumococcal disease and have become one of the largest selling vaccines of all time. Dr Siber was most recently Co-founder and Board Member of Affinivax. Dr Siber also served on the Board of Directors of Crucell, Genocea, Selecta and Vedantra, now Eliceo. He serves on the Scientific Advisory Boards of AdVaccine, CanSino, Clover, ILiAD, Valneva, and Vaxart. Dr. Siber is currently Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins Medical School and won the Sabin Gold Medal in 2016.

Experience

1. Member of Sab

   Valneva

   Nov 2019 — Present · Vienna, AT

Education

• Rush Medical College of Rush University Medical Center

  Medical Intern and Resident

  1970 — 1972

• McGill University

  MD

  1966 — 1970

• Bishop's University

  Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Major: Biology; Minor: Physics

  1962 — 1966

• Harvard Medical School

  Senior Medical Resident

  1972 — 1973

• Harvard Medical School

  Infectious Disease Fellowship, Vaccinology

  1973 — 1975