Simon Draper

Simon is Professor of Vaccinology and Translational Medicine at the Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford. He is also a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and a Fellow of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine. He acted as a valued scientific consultant to SpyBiotech since founding the company in 2017 until 2021.

Simon’s expertise in vaccine research and development is deep and wide-ranging. It includes the development of novel vaccine technologies, pre-clinical studies, clinical testing and human immuno-monitoring.

His scientific group at the University of Oxford focusses on malaria and antibody immunology. They have manufactured eleven new vaccines to the clinical development stage, progressing these to Phase I and Phase II clinical trials conducted in the UK or Africa. Many of these trials have been first-in-human safety and immunogenicity studies, with a number including efficacy readouts either in the field or following controlled human malaria infection.