Selim Badur

Professor Dr Selim BADUR  joined GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines as Global Director, Scientific Affairs & Public Health, by the end of 2015, with responsibility for high level scientific exchange with external experts and health authorities worldwide about Influenza and other viral  vaccine, specially on countries from emerging economies. He joined GSK from the University of Istanbul-Faculty of Medicine where he was the director of Virology Department and coordinator of the National Reference Laboratory of Influenza-WHO.  

Dr. Badur obtained his PhD in Microbiology from the University of Istanbul and became a research fellow at the Pasteur Institute, Paris, between 1982-1984 and senior research specialist in the same Institute during 1993-1995.  He was a visiting Professor in Medical School – Paris Sud Hospital Kremlin Bicêtre, Department of Microbiology, Paris-France, during 1996-1998.  Dr. Badur also gave lectures in Galatasaray University between 2009-2017 and has served as a consultant for Nature series between 2013-2017.  

Dr. Badur was a member of French Academy of Science, advisory member of Viral Hepatitis Prevention Board (VHPB), member of Global Hepatitis Network-WHO and European Scientists Working on Influenza Group (ESWI). He was also a member of Vaccine Advisory Board, Pandemic Flu Emergency Response Program, and STD Advisory Board, Ministry of Health, Turkey. 

Dr. Badur has co-author of 146 articles in international scientific journals, over 400 articles in local journals and more than 200 articles in conference books; he gives more than hundreds talks and presentations at international and local conferences and meetings with particular focus on vaccines, pathogenesis of infectious diseases, viral hepatitis, influenza and HPV in developing country settings.  

After joining GSK Vaccines, Dr. Badur gives more than 300 presentations over the world, and from these, 170 during GSK scientific activities and more than 100 as an invited speaker, like ECMID Summer school or French Academy of Sciences; during this period, he published 6 textbooks as a co-editor. 

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