Leander Grode, PhD Vakzine Projekt Management

Dr. Leander Grode joined VPM in May, 2003. As Manager he was responsible for all of VPM´s projects until June, 2008. He became Director of Business Development in 2008 and CSO and procurator in April 2013.

Leander graduated in 1997 with a degree in Biology from the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics in Frankfurt/Main in the Department of Molecular Membrane Biology. In 2000, he graduated with a PhD from the Max Planck Institute of Infection Biology in the Department of Immunology.

The focus of his thesis was vaccine development against tuberculosis based on live carriers, such as samonella or mycobacterium bovis BCG. Between 2001 and 2003, Leander Grode was the coordinator of the vaccine development group at the MPI in the Department of Immunology.