Moncef Slaoui is a researcher and also the former head of GlaxoSmithKline’s Vaccines department who is a Moroccan-born Arab- American.

He has a lot of experience in this field. Using his 30 years of experience he and his team are assigned to discover the vaccine of Coronavirus disease by the US government. He is one of the best researchers who has done many great works and shown his capabilities. He along with his team is trying their level best to find the vaccine of the Coronavirus which has created huge losses to the world.

Personal life

Slaoui is Muslim. He is fluent in Arabic, English, and French. He is a citizen of Morocco, Belgium, and the United States.

Slaoui has three sons and is married to Kristen Slaoui (née Belmonte), a 1992 graduate of Gettysburg College. Slaoui’s younger sister died at a young age from pertussis. One of his two younger brothers, a pediatrician, Amine, died from pancreatic cancer. His other brother, Mohamed, is a specialist in gastroenterology and his older sister, Hadia, is a university professor of French literature in Morocco.

Early life and education

Slaoui was born on July 22, 1959, in Agadir, Morocco. The city was evacuated in February 1960 after an earthquake, and Slaoui was raised in Casablanca. His father worked in the irrigation business and died when Slaoui was a teenager, leaving his mother to raise him and his four siblings.

Slaoui graduated from Mohammed V High School in Casablanca. In 1976 at age 17, Slaoui left Morocco to study medicine in France but missed the registration deadline due to new registration procedures and his mother being ill. He enrolled at the Université libre de Bruxelles, where he received a BS and MS in biology. During this time he was very politically active. In 1983, Slaoui earned a PhD in molecular biology and immunology from the Free University of Brussels. His thesis was titled Etude de la diversité et de la sélection des répertoires idiotypiques dans le système immunitaire. Slaoui’s doctoral advisor was immunologist Jacques Urbain.

Slaoui took postgraduate courses at Harvard Medical School and the Tufts University School of Medicine without earning degrees. In 1998, he received an accelerated MBA from the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Career

Slaoui and his wife lived in the United States from 1983 to 1985 while each did post-doctoral research at Harvard.When she was recruited to continue research on influenza at SmithKline-RIT in Belgium (which would later become part of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)), Slaoui got a job teaching immunology at the University of Mons in Belgium.

Slaoui has co-authored more than 100 research papers.

10 Facts about Moncef Slaoui

1. Moncef Slaoui is a researcher and also the former head of GlaxoSmithKline’s Vaccines department who is a Moroccan-born Arab- American.
2. Moncef was born in 1959 in Agadir, Morocco. He celebrates his birthday on July 17 every year. his age is 60 years old.
3. Talking about his parents and his family there are not many details about them. However,  we knew that he belongs to a family of Berber descent.
4. It is also known that his sister died at a young age due to whooping cough. Apart from these facts, there is no other information about his parents and family on the web.
5. In his biography which is on Wikipedia, there is nothing to give about his wife or his love life. So we do not know if he is married or not. Hence we know nothing about his wife and children.
6. He graduated from Universite Libre de Bruxelles from where he completed his bachelor’s degree in biology and also completed a doctorate in molecular microbiology and immunology.
7. Whereas he completed his postgraduate from Harvard Medical School and the Tufts University School of Medicine.
8. He is the former head of GlaxoSmithKline where he worked for 30 years and retired in 2017.
9. He was officially announced as the head of Operation Wrap Speed on May 15 by President Donald Trump.
10. He has his biography on Wikipedia and his net worth as of 2020 is not known.

Facts of Moncef Slaoui

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