Vafa Shahabi, Ph.D.
Director of Research and Development
Dr. Shahabi joined the Company in March 2005 and brings 12 years of experience in vaccine research to Advaxis. Previously, she worked as a Sr. Research Scientist at Wyeth, developing vaccines against viral infections such as HIV and HPV-associated tumors. Dr. Shahabi has also worked at Apollon in Malvern, PA, where her research focused on developing a DNA vaccine against HPV; at the Medical School of the University of Gothenburg-Sweden where she served as a Research Scientist and developed vaccines against Cholera and ETEC-associated diseases; as a postdoctoral fellow at School of Medicine-University of Pennsylvania, where she developed Listeria monocytogenes-based vaccines. Dr. Shahabi has several publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Dr. Shahabi holds a BS in Pharmacy from University of Madrid-Spain and a Ph.D. in Pharmacology from Temple University- School of Medicine.
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