Galit Alter

Galit Alter, PhD, is the Vice President of Immunology Research at Moderna. She spent 20 years at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard where she developed new tools to define correlates of immunity against a range of viral, bacterial, and parasitic infections to inspire next generation vaccines and therapeutics. She now leads efforts within Moderna to both define the mechanism of action of mRNA vaccines as well as to develop novel strategies to engineer immunity to promote highly effective immune responses across populations and across the globe.