Heidi Meyer, PhD Paul Ehrlich Institut

Dr Heidi Meyer is a senior scientist at the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, the German national regulatory agency responsible for licensing and batch release of vaccines and biomedicines.

She is a biologist and holds a Ph.D. in virology. After her university career, she worked in the virology laboratories of IMMUNO AG/Baxter AG, Vienna, Austria on various aspects of the development, preclinical testing and production of viral vaccines as well as on virus safety studies. In 2002, she joined the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Federal Agency for Sera and Vaccines of Germany.

Since 2002, she has been acting as an expert for human vaccines, biologicals and biotechnological products to European Medicines Agency and is a member of a number of vaccine expert groups on a national and international level. She is a member of the Biologics Working Party and a regular temporary adviser to WHO on various aspects of vaccine regulation and prequalification. In 2016, she became head of section International Cooperation /Regulatory Service and is the acting head of the WHO Collaborating Centre for the Standardization and Evaluation of Vaccines at PEI.