PopVax is an Indian full-stack biotech harnessing the power of mRNA and machine learning-enabled computational protein design to fulfill our mission of developing, manufacturing, and deploying billions of vaccine doses over the next decade to save 1 million lives per year across the world that would otherwise be lost to infectious diseases.
Our vaccines are already headed to the clinic: we have been selected to join the US Government’s Project NextGen, under which NIAID, part of the US National Institutes of Health, will conduct and sponsor a US Phase I clinical trial of our broadly-protective COVID-19 vaccine candidate beginning in early 2025.
Our work to date has been funded primarily via project agreements with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Vitalik Buterin's public health & biosecurity organization Balvi.
We are now 70+ people across our computational, experimental, analytical, process development, quality, and regulatory teams at the PopVax RNA Foundry, our integrated R&D and GMP-capable clinical dose production facility in Hyderabad. We have six novel vaccine candidates in our preclinical pipeline, and intend to initiate five clinical trials over the next two years.
We’re building a world-class, R&D-driven RNA biopharmaceutical company right here in India, which is bursting with talent that the incumbents are both misusing and underfunding. We intend to leverage our platform and this latent talent base to produce viable computationally-designed vaccine and therapeutic candidates to prevent or treat life-threatening diseases at a pace heretofore unseen in the history of the pharmaceutical industry, then distribute the ones which work at massive scale across the world, in particular ensuring timely and affordable access in lower-income countries. If this piques your interest, we’re hiring aggressively across immunogen & protein design, machine learning, nucleic acid delivery, bioassays, analytical method development (including HPLC & LC-MS), immunology, quality, software engineering, communications & scientific writing, and regulatory affairs (especially people with experience getting new vaccines or biologics through the US FDA approval process) – you can take a look at open positions over at jobs.popvax.com. If you believe you could contribute to the company in some way that’s not captured in those job descriptions, you’re welcome to email a cover letter and resume to contact@popvax.com.
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