As Global Head of Vaccines R&D and Infectious Disease Research at GSK, Philip proudly leads a global team of talented scientists and experts who are committed to research and development on vaccines and anti-infective drugs and biologics.
He oversees a broad portfolio of Vaccine R&D and Infectious Disease Research. The incredible health impact of vaccines has never been more obvious.
In recent years, we have seen an unprecedented advancement of new vaccine technologies that will help us prevent and treat disease with vaccines that were previously deemed impossible. He believes there are significant and impactful innovations ahead of us.
I’m proud to lead a team of talented scientists and R&D experts that work together with the bold ambition to prevent and change the course of infectious diseases through vaccines innovation and beyond.
Scaling MAPS vaccine technology
In 2022 GSK acquired Affinivax, based in Boston, to scale a potentially disruptive vaccine technology to help prevent infectious diseases. Watch Philip tell the story of the visionary minds behind the ongoing collaboration.
Philip's achievements
2021 – Present
SVP and Global Head of Vaccines R&D, GSK
Leads a global team of >1,900 talented scientists and experts who help develop vaccines to get ahead of disease together. The team recently licensed a world first vaccine in the respiratory space.
2015 – 2021
VP, Chief Scientific Officer for Viral and RNA Vaccines, Pfizer Vaccine R&D
Co-led an alliance with BioNTech to develop RNA-based vaccines. This started as an influenza vaccine collaboration and in March 2020 expanded to the COVID-19 vaccine programme that resulted in the licensure of the first COVID-19 vaccine. Since then, billions of doses have been administered. Led a team that advanced a vaccine programme from discovery through global phase III trials for a respiratory disease for which no vaccine existed.
2007 – 2015
Held a series of scientific and senior leadership positions:
At Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics advanced research programmes on vaccines to help in the prevention of diseases including RSV, influenza, CMV, and parvovirus B19. Led the research component of the Novartis 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic response, which contributed to three licensed pandemic influenza vaccines, including a cell culture-based vaccine, in the most rapid vaccine response to a public health emergency in history. Led a BARDA-funded collaboration with Craig Venter to use synthetic biology to generate influenza vaccine seeds and deployed the technology to supply the US Pandemic Stockpile with vaccine for the 2013 H7N9 outbreak.
2000 – 2007
Instructor and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Programme in Virology, Harvard Medical School, Children’s Hospital Boston
With collaborators, including Dr. Stephen Harrison, determined the structures of the rotavirus neutralization antigens and entry apparatus.
1996 – 2000
Clinical and Research Fellow, Harvard Combined Programme in Infectious Diseases
Awarded the Maxwell Finland Award, for scientific excellence during an infectious disease fellowship, from the Massachusetts Infectious Diseases Society.
Featured publications
Authors: Ilse Dieussaert , Joon Hyung Kim, Sabine Luik, Claudia Seidl, Wenji Pu, Jens-Ulrich Stegmann, Geeta K Swamy, Peggy Webster, Philip R Dormitzer
Date: 14 March 2024
Published: New England Journal of Medicine
Authors: Ye Che, Alexey V Gribenko, Xi Song, Luke D Handke, Kari S Efferen, Kristin Tompkins, Srinivas Kodali, Lorna Nunez, A Krishna Prasad, Lynn M Phelan, Mark Ammirati, Xiaodi Yu, Joshua A Lees, Wei Chen, Lyndsey Martinez, Vidia Roopchand, Seungil Han, Xiayang Qiu, John P DeVincenzo, Kathrin U Jansen, Philip R Dormitzer, Kena A Swanson
Date: 6 April 2023
Published: Science Translational medicine
Authors: Beate Schmoele-Thoma, Agnieszka M Zareba, Qin Jiang, Mohan S Maddur, Rana Danaf, Alex Mann, Kingsley Eze, Juin Fok-Seang, Golam Kabir, Andrew Catchpole, Daniel A Scott, Alejandra C Gurtman, Kathrin U Jansen, William C Gruber, Philip R Dormitzer, Kena A Swanson
Date: 23 June 2022
Published: The New England Journal of Medicine
Authors: Yuhang Liu, Kyle P Heim, Ye Che, Xiaoyuan Chi, Xiayang Qiu, Seungil Han, Philip R Dormitzer, Xinzhen Yang
Date: 5 March 2021
Published: Science Advances
Authors: Annette B Vogel, Isis Kanevsky, Ye Che, Kena A Swanson, Alexander Muik, Mathias Vormehr, Lena M Kranz, Kerstin C Walzer, Stephanie Hein, Alptekin Güler, Jakob Loschko, Mohan S Maddur, Ayuko Ota-Setlik, Kristin Tompkins, Journey Cole, Bonny G Lui, Thomas Ziegenhals, Arianne Plaschke, David Eisel, Sarah C Dany, Stephanie Fesser, Stephanie Erbar, Ferdia Bates, Diana Schneider, Bernadette Jesionek, Bianca Sänger, Ann-Kathrin Wallisch, Yvonne Feuchter, Hanna Junginger, Stefanie A Krumm, André P Heinen, Petra Adams-Quack, Julia Schlereth, Stefan Schille, Christoph Kröner, Ramón de la Caridad Güimil Garcia, Thomas Hiller, Leyla Fischer, Rani S Sellers, Shambhunath Choudhary, Olga Gonzalez, Fulvia Vascotto, Matthew R Gutman, Jane A Fontenot, Shannan Hall-Ursone, Kathleen Brasky, Matthew C Griffor, Seungil Han, Andreas A H Su, Joshua A Lees, Nicole L Nedoma, Ellene H Mashalidis, Parag V Sahasrabudhe, Charles Y Tan, Danka Pavliakova, Guy Singh, Camila Fontes-Garfias, Michael Pride, Ingrid L Scully, Tara Ciolino, Jennifer Obregon, Michal Gazi, Ricardo Carrion Jr, Kendra J Alfson, Warren V Kalina, Deepak Kaushal, Pei-Yong Shi, Thorsten Klamp, Corinna Rosenbaum, Andreas N Kuhn, Özlem Türeci, Philip R Dormitzer, Kathrin U Jansen, Ugur Sahin
Date: 1 February 2021
Published: Nature
Authors: Fernando P Polack, MD, Stephen J Thomas, MD, Nicholas Kitchin, MD, Judith Absalon, MD, Alejandra Gurtman, MD, Stephen Lockhart, DM, John L Perez, MD, Gonzalo Pérez Marc, MD, Edson D Moreira, MD, Cristiano Zerbini, MD, Ruth Bailey, BSc, Kena A Swanson, PhD, Satrajit Roychoudhury, PhD, Kenneth Koury, PhD, Ping Li, PhD, Warren V Kalina, PhD, David Cooper, PhD, Robert W Frenck, Jr, MD, Laura L Hammitt, MD, Özlem Türeci, MD, Haylene Nell, MD, Axel Schaefer, MD, Serhat Ünal, MD, Dina B Tresnan, DVM, PhD, Susan Mather, MD, Philip R Dormitzer, MD, PhD, Uğur Şahin, MD, Kathrin U Jansen, PhD, and William C Gruber, MD
Date: 31 December 2020
Published: The New England Journal of Medicine
Authors: Donald D Raymond, Shaun M Stewart, Jiwon Lee, Jack Ferdman, Goran Bajic, Khoi T Do, Michael J Ernandes, Pirada Suphaphiphat, Ethan C Settembre, Philip R Dormitzer, Giuseppe Del Giudice, Oretta Finco, Tae Hyun Kang, Gregory C Ippolito, George Georgiou, Thomas B Kepler, Barton F Haynes, M Anthony Moody, Hua-Xin Liao, Aaron G Schmidt, Stephen C Harrison
Date: 7 November 2016
Published: Nature Medicine
Authors: Philip R Dormitzer, Pirada Suphaphiphat, Daniel G Gibson, David E Wentworth, Timothy B Stockwell, Mikkel A Algire, Nina Alperovich, Mario Barro, David M Brown, Stewart Craig, Brian M Dattilo, Evgeniya A Denisova, Ivna De Souza, Markus Eickmann, Vivien G Dugan, Annette Ferrari, Raul C Gomila, Liqun Han, Casey Judge, Sarthak Mane, Mikhail Matrosovich, Chuck Merryman, Giuseppe Palladino, Gene A Palmer, Terika Spencer, Thomas Strecker, Heidi Trusheim, Jennifer Uhlendorff, Yingxia Wen, Anthony C Yee, Jayshree Zaveri, Bin Zhou, Stephan Becker, Armen Donabedian, Peter W Mason, John I Glass, Rino Rappuoli, J Craig Venter
Date: 15 May 2013
Published: Science Translational Medicine
Authors: Philip R Dormitzer, Emma B Nason, BVV Prasad, Stephen C Harrison
Date: 26 August 2004
Published: Nature
