Valentina Cecchinato and Jonathan Muri honored with the Biotest Award 2022

Bellinzona, January 28, 2023: 25th Allergy and Immunology Update (AIU), Grindelwald, Switzerland. Jonathan Muri, Valentina Cecchinato, Mariagrazia Uguccioni and Davide Robbiani won the Biotest Award 2022 for their outstanding study titled «Anti-chemokine antibodies after SARS-CoV-2 infection correlate with favorable disease course». This award recognizes scientific or clinical studies that enhance our knowledge of disease mechanisms […]

Gut microbes and microbiota-specific T cells in lupus

IRB Special Seminar Dr. Daniel F. Zegarra Ruiz Postdoctoral Research Associate, Immunology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (US) Tuesday, February 7, 2023 at 2 – 5 pm Bios+ Seminar Room Contact: Prof. Davide Robbiani

Mentoring immunity: Fibroblastic stromal cells

IRB Special Seminar Dr. Jovana Cupovic Senior postdoctoral researcher, Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics (D) Tuesday, February 7, 2023 at 2 – 5 pm Bios+ Seminar Room Contact: Prof. Davide Robbiani

Selection Events in Germinal Centres

IRB Special Seminar Dr. Oliver Bannard Associate Professor, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford (UK) Monday, February 6, 2023 at 4:30 – 6 pm Bios+ Seminar Room Contact: Prof. Davide Robbiani

Spatial Temporal Regulation of Adaptive Immunity

IRB Special Seminar Dr. Tal Arnon Associate Professor, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford (UK) Monday, February 6, 2023 at 4:30 – 6 pm Bios+ Seminar Room Contact: Prof. Davide Robbiani

Antibodies against coronaviruses coldspots discovered

Can one single antibody catch them all? Scientists discover antibodies that recognise all SARS-CoV-2 variants and also other coronaviruses that cause human disease. The finding opens the door to the development of novel countermeasures against present and future coronavirus threats. Bellinzona, January 27, 2023 – The coronavirus keeps evolving, and in so doing it evades […]

Pfizer Research Award, IRB and IOR researchers among winners

The Pfizer Prize Foundation selected 11 studies and 21 researchers, including Dr. Fernando P. Canale, Dr. Camilla Basso and Professor Roger Geiger of the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) and Dr. Nicolò Pernigoni, Dr. Elena Zagato and Professor Arianna Calcinotto of the Institute of Oncology Research (IOR). Zurich, January 28, 2023 – The 32nd […]