Jerald Sadoff, M.D.

Chief Medical Officer

Dr. Jerald Sadoff, M.D. as Chief Medical Officer with immediate effect. Dr. Sadoff has more than fifty years of experience in vaccine development. He has overseen or played a key role in the approval of more vaccines than any other currently active vaccine developer, including vaccines against Hepatitis A “VAQTA ®”; Haemophilus,“Liquid Pedvax”; Varicella,“ Varivax II®”; Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Varicella combination “ProQuad®”; Zoster, “Zostavax™”; Rotavirus “Rotateq®”; Human Papilloma Virus, “Gardasil®”; Ebola, “Zabdeno®+Mvabea®” and Covid-19, “Jcovden”. In total, there are fourteen vaccines for which he has played a key developmental role, with one additional vaccine now in late-stage clinical studies. He currently serves on several Scientific Advisory Boards for NIH-sponsored HIV and Malaria vaccine efforts, including the NIAID AIDS Vaccine Research Working Group. Over the last 35 years, he has authored over 350 articles, book chapters, and abstracts, and has 29 issued patents.

Most recently, Dr. Sadoff served as Senior Advisor Vaccine Development for Janssen Infectious Diseases and Vaccines, a division of Johnson & Johnson, where he held various leadership roles for more than a decade, leading the clinical development efforts for universal flu vaccines as well as for monoclonal antibodies and vaccines against HIV, Malaria, RSV, Ebola and Covid-19. For these efforts, he received the Johnson Gold Medal for Science and Technology. Prior to Janssen, Dr. Sadoff spent seven years at the AERAS Global TB Vaccine Foundation as President and CEO, where he helped develop and test the first new TB vaccines (4) in more than 40 years. Previous to AERAS, he spent eight years at Merck Co as Head of Clinical Vaccine development where he led and played a key role in licensing 9 vaccines. Prior to Merck, Dr. Sadoff spent 22 years at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR), where he became head of vaccine development after working on a variety of vaccines against Malaria, Hepatitis A, Dengue, Shigella, Cholera, Gonorrhea, Pseudomonas, Klebsiella and E. Coli. At Walter Reed, Dr. Sadoff was awarded the Paul A. Siple Memorial Medallion: Army Science Conference (1st Place), as well as placing first and second in the two other Army Science conferences he participated in, and was awarded the Army Legion of Merit for his service to the Nation.