Scientific Advisory Board

Professor Stephen Thomas, MD has an international leadership role as Lead Principal Investigator for Pfizer/BioNTech global Phase III COVID-19 vaccine trial now being deployed globally.

Prof. Thomas is a world-renowned virologist and vaccinologist and has authored numerous papers and articles on dengue fever, Zika and many other infectious diseases.

Chief, Division Of Infectious Diseases, New York Upstate Medical University; Professor of Medicine, Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, and Infectious Diseases physician-scientist from the State University of New York (SUNY), Upstate Medical University; Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases and Director, Institute for Global Health and Translational Science (IGHTS.)

He had twenty years in the U.S. Army Medical Corps serving at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR.)

Amy Patick is a scientific consultant with deep expertise in antiviral drug discovery, development and viral resistance with broad know how in emerging virus epidemics and translational medicine. Previously, Dr. Patick has served as Vice President, Research at Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Vice President, Biological Sciences at Genelabs Technologies, Head of the Antiviral Biology Therapeutic Area at Pfizer, Inc. and Research Scientist at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. Dr. Patick has also served as President for the International Society of Antiviral Research. Dr. Patick was a postdoctoral fellow in immunology at the Mayo Clinic/Foundation in Rochester, MN and received her PhD in Medical Microbiology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.