ExpreS2ion Biotech Holding AB announced the appointment of Dr. Farshad Guirakhoo as the Company's new Chief Scientific Officer (CSO). Dr. Guirakhoo has more than 30 years of broad translational research experience in the vaccine development field, and will be responsible for directing the development of the discovery and preclinical strategies and plans that support ExpreS2ion's development pipeline of unique vaccine assets, including managing the progression of ExpreS2ion's vaccine technology platform. Dr. Guirakhoo starts his employment on January 16, 2023 at ExpreS2ion's headquarters in Hørsholm, Denmark.

Dr. Farshad Guirakhoo joins from his recent positions as Senior Advisor Vaccine Research and Development and CSO of Vaxxinity Inc., which is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. In 2014, Dr. Guirakhoo was named as no. 22 in The Most Influential People in Vaccines.

He is the co-inventor of the ChimeriVax-technology platform, the world's first recombinant viral vector platform that was approved for any human vaccine. Dr. Guirakhoo has broad experience in the application of genetics, gene expression technologies and molecular virology for the construction and production of recombinant proteins, human antibodies and attenuated viral vectored vaccines for prevention and treatment of infectious diseases and cancers. He is the author of over 100 peer-reviewed publications and holds dozens of issued patents.

Dr. Guirakhoo received his Ph.D. in Virology from the Medical University of Vienna, Austria, holds an M.Sc. in Genetics from the International Institute for Biophysics and Biochemistry at the University of Tehran and a B.Sc. in Biology from the National University of Iran.

He has been awarded the National Research Council Post-Doctorate Award and studied at the CDC, Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases, in Fort Collins, CO, United States.