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Lionel Sacconnay

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Associate Director - Structural Bioinformatics at GSK
📍 Brussels Metropolitan Area, Belgium

Lionel is a computational design leader at GSK with over seven years of experience engineering proteins and nucleic-acids for next-generation vaccines. A PhD from the University of Geneva, he leads a team of computational scientists and integrates state-of-the-art AI tools to advance viral and therapeutic programs.

His work has directly contributed to a therapeutic vaccine candidate progressing into clinical testing and he is named as the primary antigen designer on multiple patent filings.

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Experience
12 Years
Current Role
Associate Director - Structural Bioinformatics
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Brussels Metropolitan Area, Belgium
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Vaccine Development
His entire career at GSK is dedicated to designing vaccines and therapeutics for viral and bacterial programs, with a specific focus on respiratory viruses.
AI in Drug Discovery
He actively drives the integration of AI tools like AlphaFold and ProteinMPNN to engineer novel antigens and mRNA constructs for new therapeutics.
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Career

Work history

12-2022
Associate Director - Structural Bioinformatics
GSK
2-2019 - 2-2023
Expert Scientist - Structural Bioinformatics
GSK
8-2017 - 1-2019
Consultant Scientist - Protein design
BENSON & WINCH ~ Executive Search & Interim Management
8-2012 - 7-2016
PhD Graduate Student in Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of Geneva
1-2012 - 6-2012
Master Thesis Student
University of Geneva
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Education
2012 - 2016
PhD
University of Geneva
2011 - 2012
Master of Science - MS
Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble I)
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