Victoria Mira (née Jenkins)

Senior Vice President, Head of R&D

Belgium

About

Advancing healthcare, to better the lives of individuals, patients and societies. Experienced leader, working within the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. Expertise in the areas of vaccination and infectious diseases (HIV, RSV, Influenza, Shingles, TBE, Tuberculosis, Pertussis). Graduated from IE Business School with an MBA, combining business acumen with scientific knowledge, to ensure the right solution is developed and reaches patients in a sustainable way.

Experience

  • Bavarian Nordic (Full-time · 5 yrs 10 mos)
    • SVP Head of Research and Development
      Dec 2025 - Present · 7 mos

    • VP Head of Regulatory Affairs (& ad interim Clinical Operations & Biometrics)
      Aug 2024 - Dec 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos

    • Sr Director: Chikungunya Program Lead and Head of CHIK Development Team
      May 2023 - Oct 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos

      Dual role: - Led the development organisation for the newly acquired chikungunya vaccine from Emergent, with direct reporting line and accountability for RA, clinical operations, clinical strategy, biostatistics, data management and project management - Program Lead, responsible for leading the successful completion of the Ph3 studies, file, approval, manufacture and launch preparation of the vaccine. Achieved parallel review and approval for both BLA/MAA under priority review and accelerated assessment.

  • GSK (Belgium)
    • Senior Manager: Global Medical Affairs Vaccines
      Mar 2019 - Sep 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos

      Influenza vaccine portfolio & adult vaccination

    • Manager: Global Medical Affairs Vaccines
      Sep 2017 - Mar 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos

      Tdap / Tdap-IPV vaccine portfolio (Boostrix)

    • Future Leaders Programme (FLP) R&D
      Sep 2015 - Sep 2017 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      Two-year leadership development programme for high-potential professionals, with rotations in various business units Commercial manager EU region (6 months) Role focused on optimising GSK Vaccine’s portfolio performance at a regional level Medical affairs (1 year) Involved in the launch of GSK’s shingles vaccine Shingrix Value strategy (6 months) Analysed and developed the investment rationale for early discovery/pre-clinical R&D projects

  • Post-Doctoral Research Associate at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
    Sep 2013 - Jun 2015 · 1 yr 10 mos

    Part of the PreDiCT-TB consortium, a public-private partnership to treat and prevent Tuberculosis. Developed a novel drug screening platform for anti-tuberculosis compounds

  • Graduate Researcher (PhD) at Imperial College London
    Oct 2009 - May 2013 · 3 yrs 8 mos

    Analysed data sets of genomic and transcriptomic information to determine key survival pathways in Mycobacteria Biosafety level category III trained