George Siber, MD

Dr. Siber is an infectious disease trained physician with 50 years of experience in developing vaccines and antibody products. From 1996 to 2007, Dr. Siber served as Executive Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer of Wyeth Vaccines (now Pfizer) where he led the development and approval of multiple innovative childhood vaccines, including Prevenar 7 and 13, the first pneumococcal conjugate vaccines, Rotashield, the first rotavirus diarrhea vaccine, Meningitec, the first meningococcal meningitis conjugate vaccine and FluMist, the first nasal influenza vaccine. Prior to Wyeth, Dr. Siber was Harvard Medical School Associate Professor of Medicine at Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Director of the Massachusetts Public Health Biologic Laboratories where he developed multiple vaccines and immune globulins, including Respigam, the first antibody licensed for respiratory syncytial virus and precursor product to Synagis and Beyfortus monoclonal antibodies. Dr. Siber most recently was a Co-founder and Board Member of Affinivax which developed a 24 valent pneumococcal vaccine and was acquired by GSK in 2022. Dr. Siber currently serves on the Scientific Advisory Boards of CanSino, Clarametyx, Clover, ILiAD, IVI, the Hong Kong Jockey Club Global Health Institute and STiRx and has been a consultant to the NIH, EU, WHO and the Gates Foundation. Dr. Siber was member of the Board of Trustees of the International Vaccine Institute and is a Board Director of Celestial Therapeutics. Dr Siber has received multiple awards including the 2016 Albert Sabin Gold Medal in vaccinology.
Dr. Siber holds an MD degree from McGill University in Canada, received post doctoral training in Internal Medicine at Rush Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago and Beth Israel Hospital in Boston and training in Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology at Boston Children’s Hospital and Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School.