IRB facts
The Institute for Research in Biomedicine was founded in 2000 with the goal of advancing the study of human immunology, with particular emphasis on the mechanisms of host defense.
The activities of the 13 research groups now extend beyond immunology to include the fields of DNA repair, rare diseases, structural and cell biology.
The IRB benefits from a wide international network of collaborations and provides teaching and training programs for graduate students from Swiss and foreign Universities.
13
Research groups
>150
Staff members
>925
Issued publications
>130
Awarded PhD Degrees
Mechanisms of influenza A virus entry
14/11/2024 12:00 am
Speaker: Prof. Dr. med. Yohei Yamauchi
Yellow fever as tool and target – mechanistic studies on v...
07/11/2024 4:00 pm
Speaker: Prof. Kai Dallmeier
Differentiation and maintenance of exhausted CD4 and CD8 T c...
15/10/2024 12:00 am
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Dietmar Zehn
Regulation of antiviral T cell immunity: Lessons learned fro...
09/10/2024 4:00 pm
Speaker: Prof. Annette Oxenius
Human Immunity: One Cell At A Time
26/09/2024 12:00 am
Speaker: Prof. Sarah Teichmann
Additive cytotoxicity: from CTL swarming and sublethal hits ...
23/09/2024 12:00 am
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Peter Friedl
The missing mechanical link: how composite interfaces govern...
12/09/2024 12:00 am
Speaker: Dr. Alba Diz-Muñoz
Molecular Cell Shielding – A Therapeutic Platform Appr...
10/09/2024 11:45 am
Speaker: Dr. Lukas Jeker
Protein Phase Separation in Immunology and Aging
10/09/2024 11:00 am
Speaker: Dr. Gea Silvia Sofia Cereghetti
Targeting immune cells in the old brain with engineered prot...
28/08/2024 3:00 pm
Speaker: Dr. Paloma Navarro
To target, to escape – perchance to cure. Gene engine...
28/08/2024 2:15 pm
Speaker: Dr. Gabriele Casirati
Structural mechanism of the ubiquitin ligase HACE1
30/07/2024 11:00 am
Speaker: Dr. Sonja Lorenz
Using community-based cohort studies in Brazil to gain insig...
22/07/2024 4:00 pm
Speaker: Prof. Albert Ko
From drug design to protein design
04/07/2024 12:00 am
Speaker: Dr. Raffaele Passannanti
The editorial process and changing landscape of publishing a...
11/06/2024 12:00 am
Speaker: Dr. A. Eggleston
Freeze Forward: Advancing from Room Temperature to Cryo-EM A...
06/06/2024 12:00 am
Speaker: Dr. Andreas Boland
Probing monoclonal antibody specificity for therapeutic vacc...
31/05/2024 12:00 am
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Martin Bachmann
The ocean microbiome as a genomic treasure trove
23/05/2024 4:00 pm
Speaker: Shinichi Sunagawa
P2rx7 in aging of the intestinal stem cell niche
23/05/2024 12:00 am
Speaker: Prof. Matthias Schewe
Reprogramming of host energy metabolism and pro-inflammatory...
14/05/2024 12:00 pm
Speaker: Ricardo Gazzinelli
Bridging the Gap between Science and Technology for Chemical...
03/05/2024 11:00 am
Speaker: Davide Bleiner
T cell subsets regulating the germinal center reaction
02/05/2024 12:00 pm
Speaker: Johanne T. Jacobsen
Breast tumor heterogeneity and metastasis: Act locally, thin...
25/04/2024 12:00 pm
Speaker: Mohamed Bentires-Alj
Tumor – host interactions as drivers and modulators of pan...
09/04/2024 12:00 pm
Speaker: Dieter Saur
From BED to BENCH. Studying DADA2 to decipher the immune res...
04/04/2024 12:00 pm
Speaker: Michele Proietti
Enhancing T cell immunity to Cancer Metastasis
20/03/2024 2:00 pm
Speaker: Rahul Roychoudhuri
Capturing Flavivirus Intermediates by Cryo-EM
15/03/2024 4:00 pm
Speaker: Giovanna Barba-Spaeth
Post-transcriptional control of T cell differentiation
14/03/2024 12:00 pm
Speaker: Vigo Heissmeyer
Rare antibody responses to COVID-19 and malaria
13/03/2024 2:00 pm
Speaker: Joshua Tan
Decoding the contribution of Immune system to aging
07/03/2024 12:00 pm
Speaker: María Mittelbrunn
Targeting licensed immune cells in cancer therapy: a new fro...
29/02/2024 12:00 pm
Speaker: Domenico Mavilio
Cytosolic Serpins in Cell Death and Inflammation
22/02/2024 4:00 pm
Speaker: Charaf Benarafa
Curiouser and curiouser: regulating the remarkable dynamics ...
06/02/2024 12:00 pm
Speaker: Gillian Griffiths
The culture of care in animal research and its perspective a...
01/02/2024 10:00 am
Speaker: Melania Osto and Tommaso Virgilio
Tick-borne encephalitis – towards new therapeutic appr...
30/01/2024 4:00 pm
Speaker: Daniel Ruzek
Data science for precision oncology
16/01/2024 12:00 pm
Speaker: Olivier Michielin
Pyroptosis – a lytic cell death coordinating host defe...
07/12/2023 12:00 pm
Speaker: Petr Broz
MHC class II as novel entry receptor of influenza A viruses
16/11/2023 4:30 pm
Speaker: Silke Stertz
Next generation CAR T cell therapies: improving efficacy, sa...
08/11/2023 3:00 pm
Speaker: Maria Themeli
1st Microsurgery Course and Experimental Research Techniques...
06/11/2023 12:00 pm
Pruning of PHGDH in CD8 T cells – taking one for the team
26/10/2023 12:00 pm
Speaker: Christoph Hess
International Workshop on Ankylosing Spondylitis: tales of m...
12/10/2023 12:00 pm
Understanding interactions between the CTLA-4 and PD-1 immun...
10/10/2023 12:00 pm
Speaker: David Sansom
(Treg)ulation and roads to tolerance in liver and gut autoim...
20/09/2023 4:00 pm
Speaker: Maria Serena Longhi
Therapeutic potential of manipulating stress responses
13/09/2023 12:00 pm
Speaker: Anne Bertolotti
From (membrane) protein interactions to precision medicine
14/06/2023 12:00 pm
Speaker: Igor Stagljar
The circadian immune system in cancer
13/06/2023 12:00 pm
Speaker: Christoph Scheiermann
Therapeutic opportunities in age-related diseases
30/05/2023 3:00 pm
Speaker: Fabrizio d'Adda di Fagagna
Understanding and targeting blood vessels in colon cancer
11/05/2023 12:00 pm
Speaker: Tatiana Petrova
Chromosome instability as a driver of age-associated human d...
08/05/2023 10:30 am
Speaker: Ian D. Hickson
Immunità e Vaccini, dal cancro a COVID-19
03/05/2023 5:00 pm
Speaker: Alberto Mantovani
TGF-beta effects on T lymphocytes: friend or foe for cancer?
02/05/2023 12:00 pm
Speaker: Julien C. Marie
The cooperation of human oncogenic gamma-herpesviruses
12/04/2023 12:00 pm
Speaker: Christian Münz
Microenvironmental cues regulating NK cell reactivity in can...
09/03/2023 12:00 pm
Speaker: Adelheid Cerwenka
“Eppur si muove!”: Allosteric activation of TCR-CD3
28/02/2023 12:00 pm
Speaker: Oreste Acuto
The smallest unit: Deciphering immune responses to infection...
14/02/2023 11:00 am
Speaker: Veit Buchholz
Dissecting bidirectional interactions between host and micr...
14/02/2023 10:00 am
Speaker: Simone Becattini
Gut microbes and microbiota-specific T cells in lupus
07/02/2023 4:00 pm
Speaker: Dr. Daniel F. Zegarra Ruiz
Mentoring immunity: Fibroblastic stromal cells
07/02/2023 3:00 pm
Speaker: Dr. Jovana Cupovic
Mitochondrial metabolism and signaling in T cell adaptive im...
07/02/2023 2:00 pm
Speaker: Dr. Francesc Baixauli
Selection Events in Germinal Centres
06/02/2023 5:00 pm
Speaker: Dr. Oliver Bannard
Spatial Temporal Regulation of Adaptive Immunity
06/02/2023 4:30 pm
Speaker: Dr. Tal Arnon
Exploring the immunological effector mechanisms against intr...
30/01/2023 10:00 am
Speaker: Dr. Caroline Junqueira
Discovery of tumor-associated self-antigens in checkpoint in...
15/12/2022 12:00 pm
Speaker: Lukas Flatz
Vitamin A delivery to the intestinal immune system
06/12/2022 1:00 pm
Speaker: Lora Hooper
The role of proinflammatory B cells in the pathogenesis of m...
10/11/2022 12:00 am
Speaker: Prof. Roland Martin
Mechanism and regulation of the initial steps in V(D)J recom...
03/11/2022 12:00 pm
Speaker: Dr. Wei Yang
Shielding Cells for Next Generation Cancer Immunotherapy
17/10/2022 12:00 pm
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Lukas Jeker
Humoral human memory repertoire: the good, the bad and the u...
30/06/2022 12:00 pm
Speaker: Elisabetta Traggiai
T regulatory cell plasticity in cancer
14/06/2022 12:00 pm
Speaker: Massimiliano Pagani
Phosphorylation of Runx proteins controls thymocyte fate
09/06/2022 12:00 pm
Speaker: Ichiro Taniuchi
Diversified responses of dendritic cells to inflammatory sti...
02/06/2022 12:00 am
Speaker: Francesca Granucci
Differentiation of effector gamma-delta T cells and applicat...
29/04/2022 12:00 pm
Speaker: Bruno Silva-Santos
How post-transcriptional events define the T cell proteome a...
07/04/2022 11:15 am
Speaker: Monika Wolkers
Fam72a controls the balance between error-prone and error-fr...
01/04/2022 12:00 pm
Speaker: Jacques Moritz
Divergent and convergent signatures of NK cell memory and cl...
10/03/2022 12:00 pm
Speaker: Chiara Romagnani
Structure and activation mechanisms of G protein-coupled and...
09/12/2021 5:00 pm
Speaker: Tracy Handel
Towards an institutional culture of Respect
17/05/2021 12:00 pm
Speaker: Gisou van der Goot
Antiviral roles of CD8+ T cell in SIV and HIV infection
22/04/2021 4:00 pm
Speaker: Guido Silvestri
Sensing DNA as a danger signal through the cGAS-STING pathwa...
04/03/2021 12:00 pm
Speaker: Andrea Ablasser
Differentiation of antigen-specific CD4+ T cells during infe...
24/02/2021 12:00 pm
Speaker: Marc K. Jenkins
DNA-Based Ligands and Receptors for Immune Cell Signaling
11/02/2021 2:00 pm
Speaker: Ronald D. Vale
Selective autophagy in homeostasis and cancer
30/01/2021 12:00 pm
Speaker: Simon Wilkinson
Neuroimmune interactions in the skin, from molecular mechani...
28/01/2021 12:00 pm
Speaker: Sophie Ugolini
The transcription factor Bhlhe40 as a regulator of immunity
14/01/2021 3:30 pm
Speaker: Brian Edelson
12th EADV-IRB Dermatological Web Meeting
Distinguished sp...
19/11/2020 4:00 pm
Speaker: 12th EADV-IRB Dermatological Web Meeting
Fibroblast causalities in chronic inflammation and cancer
06/11/2020 10:00 am
Speaker: George Kollias
Cellular and molecular trafficking in the regulation of infl...
20/10/2020 3:00 pm
Speaker: Gwendalyn (Gwen) Randolph
The role of bacterial virulence factors in induction of inte...
13/10/2020 12:00 pm
Speaker: Siegfried Hapfelmeier
Inflammasome signalling in host defence and disease
28/11/2019 12:00 pm
Speaker: Kate Schroder
The epigenetics of aging and inflamm-aging in the Geroscienc...
22/11/2019 12:00 pm
Speaker: Speaker Maria Giulia Bacalini
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