David C. Kaslow, MD, is a physician-scientist with 25+ years of vaccines research and development experience, encompassing academic, government, private and non-profit sectors. Dr Kaslow joined the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI) as director in 2012 and is currently vice president of Essential Medicines. Prior to joining MVI, he was vice president and head of vaccines project leadership and management at Merck Research Laboratories, where his responsibilities included oversight of clinical biomarkers and project leadership and management of Merck Vaccine’s pipeline. David’s professional career also includes more than a decade with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as a tenured scientist; while at NIH, he founded the Malaria Vaccine Development Unit. He received a Medical degree from the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and a bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry from the University of California, Davis. He earned a Memorial Medal from the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine.

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