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Kathrin U. Jansen ā Senior Vice President & Head of Vaccine Research & Development at Pfizer
Executive Bio
Dr. Kathrin U. Jansen, Ph.D. has been Senior Vice President of Vaccine Research & Development at Pfizer Inc. since June 01, 2015. Dr. Jansen served as Senior Vice President of Early Phase Programs of Vaccine Research at Wyeth LLC. Dr. Jansen served as Senior Vice President of Research and Development and Chief Scientific Officer of VaxGen Inc., from October 19, 2004 to July 29, 2006. Dr. Jansen lead an organization of approximately 550 colleagues comprised of clinicians, vaccine process/analytical/and formulation development, and other laboratory scientists. Dr. Jansen joined VaxGen in October 2004 after having served as Executive Director of Microbial Vaccine Research for Merck Research Laboratories. At Vaxgen, Dr. Jansen leads a team of more than 40 scientists and related personnel in developing Vaxgen's existing investigational vaccines, as well as evaluating and developing new product candidates. Dr. Jansen was the scientific leader of the team that successfully developed Merck's Phase III human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine candidate to prevent genital warts and cervical cancer. Additionally, she was responsible for several bacterial vaccine programs at Merck. Dr. Jansen also headed the clinical assay laboratory responsible for the development and validation of new assays and for the clinical testing of all existing Merck accines and vaccine candidates. Dr. Jansen joined Merck in 1992 as a research fellow and advanced through a series of positions with increasing responsibility. Prior to Merck, she served from 1989 to 1992 as a research scientist at the Glaxo Institute for Molecular Biology, where she studied the structure and function of a low affinity receptor for IgE (CD23). Prior to her career in industry, Dr. Jansen held research positions at Cornell University and Institut fur Mikrobiologie, Marburg, Germany. She is an author on 53 scientific articles and the inventor on seven issued patents and numerous patent applications related to vaccine research and development. She holds a Ph.D. in Microbiology, with a minor in Biochemistry and Genetics and an undergraduate degree in Biology from Philipps-Universitat, Marburg, Germany.
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Pfizer's Executive Team at a Glance
Based on 330 ratings, Pfizer's employees are satisfied with their Executive Team and give them a āBā or 71/100. On average, Women provided higher ratings for their Executive Team compared to Men. Also, the IT department thinks more highly of the Executive Team relative to the Engineering department.
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