​Please join us for a special seminar featuring our new partners for 2026, Sanofi!

​Reverse Pitch: What Makes Science Partnership-Ready?

​Please join us for this special event with Sean Du, Senior Director and Acting Head of External R&D, Sanofi Global Vaccines R&D.

​About our speaker

​ As Senior Director and Acting Head of External R&D, Sanofi Global Vaccines R&D, Sean Du is overseeing the search and evaluation of hundreds of external innovative opportunities each year to support Sanofi Vaccines’ global pipeline strategy and has directly contributed significantly to the closing of multiple exclusive licensing and acquisition deals valued at over $2 billion USD and a $280 million AUD collaboration agreement with Queensland State Government Australia. Sean has over 20 years of extensive vaccine R&D and business development experience. Before joining Sanofi, Sean was Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Altravax from 2013 to 2015 and Executive Director & Head of the Vaccine Research Institute at Simcere Pharmaceutical Group from 2010 to 2013. Prior to Simcere, he worked as a Senior Scientist and Project Leader on multiple vaccine programs at Maxygen for 9 years. Sean received his Ph.D. degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Delaware and his postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University.

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​Details:

​Presentations from 11:30-12:30pm with networking from 12:30-1:00pm.