Chairman
William Kwabena Ampofo is Associate Professor and Head of the Virology Department, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR), College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana.
Director
Dr Simon Agwale has a Ph.D. in virology and vaccinology. He has over 20 years’ experience combining top-level scientific research with the operations of Biotech companies.
Executive Director
Patrick Tippoo has more than 30 years experience in the vaccine manufacturing industry. He has been with Biovac, a private public partnership in South Africa, since its inception in 2003.
Director
Jean-Vivien Mombouli is molecular and cellular pharmacologist with à PhD from Université de Poitiers (France) in 1985.
Director
Dr. Chidi Nweneka was recently re-elected as a board member of AVMI during the 2021 virtual annual general meeting.
Vice Chair
Anissa Boumlic-Courtade, is Director, Head of the Strategy operationalization group within Bioprocessing Strategy, Process Solutions division of Life Sciences division of Merck kgAa, Darmstadt Germany.
Part Time Voluntary Administrative Support
Tarisayi Matongo is a qualified bioprocess engineer (MSC, UCT) by training.
Part Time Voluntary Administrative Assistant
Dr Rajesh Sharma is working as a Scientist in Antigen production team at The Biovac Institute.
Executive & Administrative Assistant
Melissa Schouw is currently the Executive and Administrative Assistant at AVMI.
Part Time Voluntary Administrative Support
Matthew Williams currently serves as a downstream scientist in the Science & Innovation department at Biovac,
Part Time Voluntary Administrative Assistant
Kerisha Batohi is the team lead at Cape Biologix Technologies, a transient plant-based expression production facility based in Cape Town.
Part Time Voluntary Trustee
Ebrahim Mohamed is a Synthetic Organic Chemist by training with over 15 years’ experience in pharmaceuticals with expertise covering business development, product development, technology transfers, process optimizations and cGMP.
Part-Time Voluntary Legal Support
Charlie is a Scientist/Attorney with passion for Intellectual Property (“IP”) and the implementation of the associated rights particularly for start-up companies.
Part Time Voluntary Administrative Support
Akhona Gura is currently the Purification Scientist at Biovac.