Head of Development & Chief Medical Officer
Gates Medical Research Institute
Cambridge, MA, United States
Alexander Schmidt serves as Head of Development and Chief Medical Officer at the Gates Medical Research Institute. He joined Gates MRI in 2018 as Experimental Medicine Leader and became Head of Vaccines Development in 2021. Prior to joining Gates MRI, Alex spent 7 years with GSK Vaccines, where he led clinical vaccine development programs for dengue, RSV, and influenza virus vaccines. Prior to joining industry, he spent ten years in the Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, NIAID, U.S. National Institutes of Health, and five years in academic medicine in Berlin, Germany.
Alex received his M.D. from Freie Universität Berlin, trained in pediatrics at Charité and at The German Heart Center in Berlin, and served as principal investigator and faculty in pediatrics at Charité. He is a recipient of the NIH Director’s Award and several NIAID awards and a member of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease.
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose.
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