Alfredo was previously a co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Okairos, leading preclinical and clinical development of several vaccines and monoclonal antibodies against infectious diseases and cancer.

Alfredo’s experience includes the positions of senior director of the Viral Diseases Vaccine program at Istituto di Ricerche di Biologia Molecolare (IRBM), staff scientist at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany and project leader at the Sclavo Research Centre in Siena, Italy.

He has published many articles in leading journals on a range of subjects, including viral and bacterial infection and vaccines.

Alfredo holds a degree in chemistry from the University of Rome, Italy and is Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of Naples “Federico II”.