Mengyun Hu and Sara Ravasio IRB Student awardees 2017-2018
on May 18, 2018 During the annual IRB Student Retreat, which took place on May 2 – 4 in Einsiedeln, Mengyun Hu (Cellular Immunology Lab) and Sara Ravasio (Immune Regulation Lab) were announced as the grantees of the sixth IRB student award. This award is meant to acknowledge the students’ participation, effort and improvements during […]
Greta Guarda joins IRB as Group Leader
on April 25, 2018 Since March 1, 2018, Greta Guarda is heading the Immune Mechanisms laboratory at the IRB. Greta studied Molecular Biology at the University of Zurich and at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. Then, she carried out her PhD work at the IRB on T cell-mediated immunity. In 2007, she […]
Greta Guarda joins IRB as Group Leader
on April 25, 2018 Since March 1, 2018, Greta Guarda is heading the Immune Mechanisms laboratory at the IRB. Greta studied Molecular Biology at the University of Zurich and at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. Then, she carried out her PhD work at the IRB on T cell-mediated immunity. In 2007, she […]
The 2018 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine conferred to Prof. Antonio Lanzavecchia
on April 25, 2018 The Louis-Jeantet Foundation, during a ceremony hold on Wednesday April 25th at the Centre Médical Universitaire (CMU) in Geneva, conferred the 2018 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine to Antonio Lanzavecchia, Director of the Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Bellinzona and Professor of the Faculty of Biomedical Sciences at the Università della […]
Stefan Emming awarded BioLegend Best Workshop Presentation at the WIRM
on March 26, 2018 Stefan Emming presented his work entitled “Mechanisms of regulation of human T cell activation and GM-CSF production” at the World Immune Regulation Meeting (WIRM), which took place in Davos Switzerland, on March 14-17, 2018. First, Stefan was one of the 10 EFIS-EJI Travel Grant Winners of this meeting. Then, he was […]
Elsa Rottoli awarded PhD
on March 23, 2018 Elsa Rottoli successfully defended her PhD thesis, which was presented at the Università degli Studi di Milano (IT) on March 16th, 2018. Her thesis title was “ATP-gated P2X7 receptor as a novel checkpoint molecule in T effector/memory cell function” and the work has been done in the T Cell Development group […]
A Swiss team discovers new antibodies that nip malaria in the bud
on March 19, 2018 BELLINZONA and BASEL (Switzerland) – A Swiss team of researchers from the Institute for Research in Biomedicine, affiliated to the Università della Svizzera italiana, and from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, associated Institute of the University of Basel, has discovered a new class of antibodies that potently block malaria […]
New paper by the Molinari Lab
on March 2, 2018 The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is an intracellular organelle that produces all proteins destined to the cell surface, to the extracellular environments and to the organelles of the endocytic and secretory pathways. In a paper published on February 16th in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, Timothy Bergmann, Ilaria Fregno and Maurizio Molinari […]
Dr. Cristina Leoni awarded the Best PhD Thesis for the year 2017 from the University of Bern
on February 9, 2018 On occasion of the «GCB Symposium 2018», held on February 01, 2018, at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Department of Physiology, University of Bern, the GCB Award for Best PhD Thesis for the year 2017 was conferred on Cristina Leoni, PhD of Science in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, […]
2018 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine to Prof. Antonio Lanzavecchia
on January 23, 2018 The 2018 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine is awarded to the immunologist ANTONIO LANZAVECCHIA, Director of the Institute for Research in Biomedicine and Professor at the Università della Svizzera italiana in Switzerland and to CHRISTER BETSHOLTZ, Director of the Integrated Cardio Metabolic Centre based at Karolinska Institute, and Professor at Uppsala University […]
