Jerome Kim, MD, is the Director General of the International Vaccine Institute and an international expert on the evaluation and development of vaccines.
Why you should listen
Dr. Jerome Kim's depth and breadth of scientific experience spans basic research through advanced clinical development. Before becoming director general of the International Vaccine Institute, Kim was principal deputy and chief of Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Pathogenesis in the US Military HIV Research Program (MHRP) and also served as the project manager for the HIV Vaccines and Advanced Concepts Evaluation Project Management Offices, US Army Medical Materiel Development Activity, Fort Detrick, Maryland. He led the Army's Phase III HIV vaccine trial (RV144), which was the first demonstration that an HIV vaccine could protect against infection, as well as subsequent studies that identified laboratory correlates and HIV sequence changes associated with vaccination.
Kim's research interests include HIV molecular epidemiology, host genetics and HIV vaccine development. He has authored more than 250 publications and received the John Maher Award for Research Excellence from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in 2013. Kim is also an adjunct professor of medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and a fellow of the American College of Physicians and the Infectious Diseases Society of America. He is a graduate of the University of Hawaii, with high honors in History and highest honors in Biology, and received his MD from Yale University School of Medicine.
Jerome Kim’s TED Talk
Jerome Kim, David Biello, Chris Anderson
The trials, tribulations and timeline of a COVID-19 vaccine
23 minutes 22 secondsDeveloping a vaccine usually takes five to 10 years, costs about a billion dollars and has a failure rate of 93 percent. Under the pressure of the coronavirus pandemic, scientists are being asked to speed that timeline up to 12 to 18 months, says Jerome Kim, director general of the International Vaccine Institute. How are things going? Kim updates us on the varied field of vaccine candidates and discusses the challenges of making sure the one that works gets distributed to the whole world. (This virtual conversation, hosted by head of TED David Biello, was recorded June 15, 2020.)Posted Jun 2020
