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Samuel P. Nobs performed his undergraduate studies in Biomedical Science at Victoria University of Wellington (NZ) between 2007 and 2010. After research stays in Immunology at the Malaghan Institute of Medical Research (NZ) and Australian National University (AU), he completed his Master degree in Immunology and Microbiology as an Excellence and Opportunity Scholar at ETH Zurich (CH) in 2012 in the group of Prof. Manfred Kopf where he worked on the development and function of alveolar macrophages. Continuing in the same laboratory for his doctorate, he discovered a critical role for PI3Kg in mediating lung dendritic cell development. Furthermore, he identified distinct and essential roles for PPARg and GM-CSF in driving allergic lung inflammation and chronic airway remodeling. He received his Ph.D. from ETH Zurich in 2017 where he was awarded the ETH Silver Medal for his thesis as well as the doctoral thesis prize in Allergology from the European Federation of Immunological Societies. For his postdoctoral training, Nobs joined the Department of Systems Immunology at the Weizmann Institute of Science (IL) as an EMBO and SNSF Postdoctoral Fellow from 2017-2024. In his postdoctoral work in the group of Eran Elinav, Samuel P. Nobs worked on how metabolism and the microbiome control respiratory diseases. In this work, he uncovered a novel molecular mechanism about why diabetes is associated with elevated susceptibility to respiratory infection. He was awarded the Sidney and Joan Pestka Postgraduate Award from the International Cytokine and Interferon Society as well as the Weizmann Institute of Science Prize for Outstanding Postdoctoral Achievements for his discoveries. In 2024, he was awarded an SNSF Starting Grant, starting his independent scientific career at the Department of Physiology at the University of Zurich (CH) as an Assistant Professor. In the summer of 2025, Samuel P. Nobs is joining the IRB as a group leader to lead the new Immune Microbiome Interactions laboratory.
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