Peter F. Billingsley
Sanaria Inc. for the International PfSPZ Consortium,USA
Biography
Peter F. Billingsley PhD is Vice President of International Projects and Strategy at Sanaria Inc. He has over 25 years’ experience working on malaria, in particular the biology of transmission of malaria through the mosquito from the molecular level in the laboratory right through to the ecology and epidemiology of transmission. He was awarded a prestigious Royal Society University Research Fellowship in 1988 which he held at Imperial College and then later was senior lecturer, head of Zoology and director of post-graduate studies for life sciences at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. At Sanaria, Dr. Billingsley has been part of the core team taking the PfSPZ Vaccine and PfSPZ Challenge from R&D right through to major clinical trials in USA, Africa and Europe. Until recently, he was Senior Director of Quality Systems at Sanaria and retains a functional QA role with respect to international site visits and training, while stilll acting as PI on grants for vaccine R&D.