Jean-Paul Prieels holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. He started his industrial career at Petrofina in 1983 as a biotechnology manager and joined GSK Vaccines in 1987.
His responsibilities gradually expanded to lead the vaccine preclinical R&D development activities as Senior Vice President of Research and Development at GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals in Rixensart, Belgium, until 2011.
His career spans from basic research to applied research and product development. He was instrumental in the development of several commercially available vaccines, including Rotarix, Cervarix, Synflorix, and Shingrix.
Today, he is director at NCardia, Nouscom, Leukocare, Bone Therapeutics, PDC*Line Pharma, and Quantoom Biosciences. He is a member of the scientific advisory board of CureVac, Imcyse, Univercells, Minervax, Icosavax, Inimmune, and a member of the European Vaccine Initiative Board of Stakeholders.
