Vaccinologist & Microbiologist; Co-Developer of Corbevax COVID-19 Vaccine; Professor at Baylor College of Medicine; Co-Director at Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development

Houston, TX, USA
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Maria Elena Bottazzi Biography

Dr. Maria Elena Bottazzi is a vaccinologist, microbiologist, and global health advocate focused on increasing access to vaccines for vulnerable populations. Bottazzi serves as a professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology and Microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine, where she is also senior associate dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and division chief of Pediatric Tropical Medicine. She holds the title of distinguished professor at Baylor University and is co-director of the Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, where she advances approaches to combat diseases affecting underserved communities.

Bottazzi is known for co-developing Corbevax, a COVID-19 vaccine created with Dr. Peter Hotez. Corbevax is inexpensive, patent-free, and designed for large-scale production. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Bottazzi's lab spent a decade researching coronaviruses, including SARS and MERS, which led to the rapid development of a recombinant protein-based technology for Corbevax in collaboration with Biological E in India. Her open-science vaccine technology also contributed to the development of IndoVac in Indonesia, with approximately 100 million doses delivered. Bottazzi's work promotes global health equity by enabling the manufacture of affordable, stable vaccines by governments and companies worldwide.

Bottazzi has a longstanding career addressing neglected tropical diseases, focusing on vaccine development for hookworm, schistosomiasis, Chagas disease, and leishmaniasis. With more than two decades of experience in the product development partnership model, she has built biotechnology capacity and advanced several neglected tropical disease vaccines to phase 2 clinical trials. Bottazzi has served on National Academies ad hoc committees and as co-chair of the Vaccines and Therapeutics Taskforce of the Lancet Commission on COVID-19.

Bottazzi's work has been recognized by nominations and awards, including a Nobel Peace Prize nomination with Dr. Peter Hotez by Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher of Texas. She received the Vilcek-Gold Award for Humanism in Healthcare for her leadership in developing a patent-free, open-source COVID-19 vaccine and for supporting healthcare education and access in vulnerable populations. Bottazzi is the author or coauthor of more than 150 scientific papers and has received honors such as the Orden Gran Cruz Placa de Oro from the National Congress of Honduras. She has been named among Forbes' and Bloomberg's most influential people in Central and Latin America and has participated as a panelist at the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting, discussing global vaccine equality.

Bottazzi has participated in more than 250 conferences worldwide and is recognized for her expertise at the intersection of science, equity, and public health policy. She is a fellow of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine, and the Leshner Leadership Institute Public Engagement of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Bottazzi is a member of the National Academy of Science of Honduras and an emerging leader in health and medicine of the National Academy of Medicine in the United States. Her experience as a Latina immigrant scientist working to improve global vaccine access is widely recognized in the fields of vaccine development, infectious diseases, and public health.

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