S.S. Vasan 9th Australasian Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics Development Meeting 2022

S.S. Vasan

Professor S.S. Vasan (who goes by his surname) leads the CSIRO Dangerous Pathogens team at the Australian Animal Health Laboratory which performs research, development and preclinical evaluation of medical countermeasures for dangerous pathogens affecting humans and animals (zoonoses), especially those requiring high containment at biosafety level 3 or 4. Previously, he was at the equivalent British facility at Porton Down, and prior to that with Oxford University’s spin-out Oxitec as Head of Public Health, where he was responsible for the progress of transgenic mosquito technologies from laboratory to field to combat chikungunya, dengue and zika. Vasan obtained his doctorate from Trinity College, Oxford, and has been elected a fellow by several prestigious professional societies including the Royal Entomological Society and the Royal Society for Public Health. A former McKinsey consultant and Rhodes scholar, he is Honorary Visiting Professor of Health Sciences at the University of York (UK) and Adjunct Professor of Preventive and Social Medicine at JIPMER (an institution of national importance in India).