Sara Natali awarded PhD
on July 2, 2018 Sara Natali successfully defended her PhD thesis, which was presented at the ETH Zurich on May 24th, 2018. Her thesis title was “Heterogeneity of allergen-reactive human T lymphocytes” and the work has been done in the Cellular Immunology group head by Prof. Federica Sallusto at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine. Her […]
Egle Radice awarded PhD
on June 20, 2018 Egle Radice successfully defended her PhD thesis, which was presented at the University of Bern on May 25th, 2018. Her thesis title was “Functional expression of the scavenger ACKR3 on B Lymphocytes of Secondary Lymphoid Organs” and the work has been done in the Signal Transduction group head by Prof. Marcus […]
Antonino Cassotta received a Poster award at the Gordon Research Conference, Mount Snow, USA
on June 20, 2018 Antonino Cassotta presented a Poster at the Gordon research Conference (Immunochemistry and Immunobiology), “Advances in Immunology and Immunotechnology: Insights in the Regulation of Protective and Pathological Immune Responses” that took place in Mount Snow, West Dover, VT, USA on June 10-15, 2018. He received an award for his poster entitled “Deciphering […]
Tobias Wolf awarded PhD
on June 4, 2018 Tobias Wolf successfully defended his PhD thesis, which was presented at the ETH Zurich on January 25th, 2018. His thesis title was “New approaches to understand T cell activation and circumvent T cell dysfunction in cancer” and the work has been done in the Immune Regulation group head by Prof. Antonio […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
