11-14, 15:20–15:35 (Asia/Bangkok), Breakout 3
Viruses & bacteria like HCV, Strep A, and TB cumulatively take millions of lives each year – effective vaccines against them would considerably reduce that death toll. Unfortunately, big pharma isn’t interested in investing in developing these vaccines, and even if they did exist, rising vaccine hesitancy may prevent many from benefitting. PopVax is pioneering a new model of developing first-in-the-world verifiable vaccines at dramatically lower cost in India with radically greater transparency.
Founder, Managing Director, and Head of Machine Learning at PopVax (https://popvax.com), where we develop mRNA vaccines using computational protein design to both save millions of lives in the present and prevent potential pandemics that may occur in the future. BS in CS from Yale, and previously dropped out of the Cornell CS PhD program to start the Y Combinator-backed robotics software startup Pashi.