William Warren, Ph.D.

President and Chief Executive Officer

Bill is President, CEO and a founder of VaxDesign Corporation.

Prior to VaxDesign, he was President of Sciperio Inc. where he coordinated state of the art water desalination and water from air technologies. He directed a diverse portfolio of R&D programs as a program manager at DARPA in the Defense Sciences Office. Warren was a principal member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories.

Bill has authored over 180 referred publications, was the editor of three conference proceedings, and has communicated over 185 scientific presentations. He is listed as an inventor on seven issued patents and over a dozen pending patents and provisional patents on diverse topics such as in vitro immune models, microparticle-related immunotherapies, tissue engineering processes, water desalination, semiconductor memories and infrared detectors.

He has received three R&D 100 awards, the 2009 Governor’s New Product Award, the Schwartz Business Innovation Award, the BioMarker Award, the Industry Week Innovation Award, the Discover Magazine Award, and several outstanding paper awards. He has organized or co-organized five international conferences; is on the board of directors of Florida’s Blood Centers, BioFlorida, Sciperio and VaxDesign; is a Professor of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Central Florida; and is a founding member of bioOrlando and BioArabia.

Bill received his B.Sc. Honors and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering Science from The Pennsylvania State University.