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Niccolò Bianchi awarded PhD

Niccolò Bianchi successfully defended his PhD thesis, which was presented at the University of Bern on December 16th, 2021. His thesis title was “Regulation of inflammatory phenotypes in human T helper lymphocytes” and the study was conducted in the Molecular Immunology lab headed by Dr. Silvia Monticelli at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine, in […]

New paper published in PLoS Biology

Bellinzona, February 15, 2022 – The proliferation and effector function of T lymphocytes of the immune system must be carefully regulated. These cells are indeed crucial sentinels that protect the body from invading pathogens, but their powerful responses must be limited in magnitude and duration to avoid damage to healthy tissues. A network of molecular […]

Giordano Reginato awarded PhD

Giordano Reginato successfully defended his PhD thesis, which was presented at ETH on October 26th, 2021. His thesis title was “Understanding the function of the MRE11 complex in homologous recombination” and the study was conducted in the Recombination Mechanisms lab headed by Prof. Petr Cejka at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine, in Bellinzona. His […]

Covid-19: a new mechanism of immune resistance discovered

Bellinzona, January 31, 2022 – Not only vaccines and antibodies but also innate immunity, the first line of defense that plays a key role in pathogen resistance, plays its part against Sars-CoV-2 and its variants, including Omicron. This is the discovery published in Nature Immunology, the result of an international effort in which researchers from […]

Marcus Thelen nominated for a Life Science Switzerland (LS)2 Honorary membership

Bellinzona, January 28, 2022 – Marcus Thelen has been nominated by the LS2 section Molecular and Cellular Biosciences for a LS2 Honorary membership and selected by an internal committee of different board section members and junior LS2 members for his contributions to LS2 and his outstanding scientific career and achievements. Marcus Thelen has served the […]

Santiago González President of the Association of the Spanish scientists in Switzerland

Bellinzona, January 25, 2022 – Santiago González head of the Infection and Immunity laboratory at the IRB has been elected president of the association of Spanish scientists in Switzerland (ACECH), a non-profit organization created in November 2017 and formed by more than 250 Spanish researchers from all disciplines working in Switzerland. The association aims at […]

Gaia Antonini, Josipa Jerak and Pedro Ventura IRB Student awardees 2020-2021

On January 18, 2022, Josipa Jerak (Cellular Immunology Lab), Gaia Antonini (Systems Immunology Lab) and Pedro Ventura (Immune Mechanisms Lab) were announced as the grantees of the ninth IRB PhD Student Award. For their studies, Josipa and Pedro are enrolled at the ETHZ, while Gaia is enrolled at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI). This […]

Science that Helps – History and prospects of biomedical research in Bellinzona

The book “Science that Helps – History and prospects of biomedical research in Bellinzona” tells the story of the first twenty years in the history of the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) and the Institute of Oncology Research (IOR) through the most important events,  testimonies and reflections of people from the political and academic world, as well […]