Dr. Jim Tartaglia, PhD

Jim is an internationally recognized vaccine R&D leader with over 30 years of experience in industry, including exposure to partnerships with private sector, government and international agencies.

Jim is widely respected for creating and leading multi-disciplinary teams to deliver business objectives, address complex problems, especially towards developing and licensing products in the veterinary and human vaccine areas.

He is recognized for strong leadership, stakeholder engagement, and team management skills within matrix organizations, with a proven track record in Vaccine R&D, General management, Project leadership, Strategic Planning and Execution, Stakeholder relationship Management.

In his over 30-year tenure with Sanofi, most recently as Global Head of Vaccine Development and LCM, Jim was responsible for a vaccine portfolio of 25 projects extending from phase I/II through LCM in the areas of influenza, pediatric combination vaccines, RSV, rabies, Yellow Fever, pneumococcal and meningococcal vaccines.

Jim holds a PhD from the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Albany Medical College, US and a BSc in Biology from Bucknell University, Pennsylvania.