Rino Rappuoli#
| Membership Number: | 5201 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-8827-254X |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015 - to date Chief Scientist and Head External R&D, GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines (Siena, Italy)
- 2017 - to date Professor of Vaccines Research, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College (London, United Kingdom)
- 2014 Global Head Research and Development, Novartis Vaccines (Siena, Italy)
- 2007 - 2015 Founder and chairman of the Board of the Novartis Vaccines Institute for Global Health (Siena, Italy)
- 2006 Global Head Vaccines Research, Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics (Siena, Italy)
- 2003 Chief Scientific Officer and Vice President Vaccines Research, Chiron Corporation (Emeryville, USA)
- 1996 Vice President Vaccines Research, Chiron Corporation (Emeryville, USA)
- 1992 Head of Research of IRIS, the Chiron S.p.A. Research Institute (Siena, Italy)
- 1988 1991 Head of the Sclavo Research and Development (Siena, Italy)
Fields of Scholarship
- Diphtheria and CRM197
- Pertussisstructed by rational drug design that has been approved for human use.
- Meningoccocal conjugate vaccines
- Mucosal adjuvants
- Helicobacter pylori
- Cellular microbiology
- Adjuvant: Contributed to the licensing of the MF59 adjuvant for human use
- Reverse vaccinology and meningococcus B.
- Pandemic influenza
- Neglected disease- GVGH Institute
Honours and Awards
- 1989 Scipley Lecturer (Harvard Medical School)
- 1990 Elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organization
- 1991 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (Germany)
- 1991 "Federchimica" award (Italy)
- 1992 European Federation Pharmaceutical Industries Association Award (EFPIA), for the best biotechnological product.
- 1992 "Scanno" award (Italy)
- 1992 Eighteenth Maxwell Finland Lecture (Harvard Medical School)
- 1993 "Galeno" award (Italy)
- 1994 "Philip Morris" award (Italy)
- 1994 "Lepetit" award (Italy)
- 1996 "Federchimica" award (Italy)
- 1998 Dr. Friedrich Sasse Award (Germany)
- 2002 Arima Award for Applied Microbiology (IUMS)
- 2002 Distinguished Visitor Award (University of Auckland)
- 2003 City of Florence Award for Molecular Sciences (Italy)
- 2004 Galeno award (Italy)
- 2005 Gold Medal awarded by the Italian President for contributions to public healthcare
- 2005 Election to U.S. National Academy of Sciences
- 2007 Miami Nature Biotechnology Winter Symposium Special Achievement Award
- 2009 Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal Award
- 2009 Antonio Feltrinelli Award
- 2010 Life Achievement Award for Scientific Excellence, Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland
- 2011 Excellence Award from the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
- 2012 Assobiotec Award
- 2013 Nominated third most influential person worldwide in the field of vaccines (Terrapin)
- 2014 Nominated fourth most influential person worldwide in the field of vaccines (VaccineNation)
- 2014 Prix Galeno Italy, UK, and France for the best pharmaceutical product
- 2015 Fellowship Faculty of Medicine (Imperial College London)
- 2015 Hilleman Award (American Society for Microbiology)
- 2016 Election Foreign Member (Royal Society, London)
- 2017 Canada Gairdner International Award
- 2017 Lifetime Achievement European Inventor Award
- 2017 Election Foreign Member (American Academy of Arts & Sciences)
- 2018 President Elect International Union of Microbiological Societies (2020-2023)
- 2019 Robert Koch Award
