Pfizer Prize 2020, awards for IRB and IOR researchers in neurology and oncology
on February 7, 2020 The awards for the 29th Pfizer Prize for Research were given on Thursday, February 6, 2020 in Zurich. Among the winners were Daniela Latorre, former researcher at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) and currently researcher at ETH Zurich, and Arianna Calcinotto of the Institute of Oncological Research (IOR), both […]
IRB researcher is the recipient of the Friedrich Miescher Award 2020 in biochemistry
on January 28, 2020 Professor Greta Guarda, Group leader at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB, affiliated to Università della Svizzera italiana, USI), is the recipient of the Friedrich-Miescher-Award (FMA) 2020 that she will receive at the annual conference of LS2 (Life Sciences Switzerland, the leading organisation in Switzerland dedicated to life sciences) and […]
New paper from the Molinari lab
on January 13, 2020 In a recent paper published in DNA and Cell Biology, the group of Maurizio Molinari from the IRB demonstrated that misfolded proteins passing ER quality control are subjected to a second structural check-point within lysosomes. Only polypeptides that pass both quality control triages will eventually mature in their functional conformation and […]
A collaborative project supported by the SNSF and the DFG to study the role of RNA-binding proteins in the immune system
on January 9, 2020 A collaborative Swiss-German project between the IRB laboratory of Dr. Silvia Monticelli and the lab of Prof. Vigo Heissmeyer (Ludwig Maximilian University and Helmholtz Zentrum, Münich, Germany) recently received support from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and the German Research Foundation (DFG) to study the role of RNA-binding proteins in […]
A Chair in honour of Prof. Giorgio Noseda, first President of the IRB and Honorary President of the IRB Foundation
on December 17, 2019 The University of Zurich has decided to establish, as of 2020, the «Giorgio Noseda Chair for the epidemiology and treatment of cancer». For the first time in Switzerland, the risk factors, cancer-related diseases at the population level, early diagnosis and patient care will be the subject of cross-sectional researches. The Chair […]
Ylenia Silvestri awarded PhD
on December 9, 2019 Ylenia Silvestri successfully defended her PhD thesis, which was presented at the University of Bologna on November 29th, 2019. Her thesis title was “The role of CD8+CCR4+ T-cells in axial spondyloarthritis” and the study was conducted in the Chemokines in Immunity lab headed by Prof. Mariagrazia Uguccioni at the Institute for […]
New paper from the González lab
on December 3, 2019 The trachea contains different types of immune cells that protect the respiratory tract from the invasion of pathogens. In a paper published this week in the European Journal of Immunology, the group of Santiago González at the IRB Bellinzona has characterized the role of gammadeltaT cells, one of the members of […]
New Tool to Characterize the Dynamic Behaviour of Immune Cells
on November 21, 2019 To analyse the complex dynamics of immune cells in response to an insult, an interdisciplinary effort is required. In a paper published this week in the journal Frontiers in Immunology, the group of Santiago González at the IRB Bellinzona has characterized in vivo the dynamic behavior of neutrophils in the popliteal […]
Lysosomes eat the endoplasmic reticulum to recover from stress
on November 11, 2019 Accumulation of damaged proteins, lipid and organelles compromises cell viability and is linked to human diseases, from cancer to neurodegeneration. These aberrant materials are constantly produced by cells and their production is increased on aging, pathogen invasion and disease states. To maintain the function of tissues and organs, our cells have […]
With a new Artificial Intelligence method, humans and machines can analyse complex biomedical data
on October 31, 2019 An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the institute of Computational Sciences (ICS) and the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB), affiliated to USI have developed a new Artificial Intelligence method that enables the analysis of complex biomedical data. The results of the research have been published in the renowned scientific journal […]
