“New mechanisms regulating immunity and cancer”

 Venue: Sir Kenneth and Lady Noreen Murray Room, CTIR 2.84 

Host: Professor Doreen Cantrell

Bio

After completing her studies in Molecular Biology at the University of Zurich and at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Greta Guarda carried out her PhD on T cell[1]mediated immunity at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB), Bellinzona. In 2007, she joined as a post-doc the University of Lausanne. During these years, she focused her research on NOD-like receptors and inflammasome regulation. Thanks to the award of a Swiss National Science Foundation professorship and a European Research Council starting grant, she established her independent research group in 2012.

She joined the IRB as Group Leader in 2018 and is Full Professor at the Università della Svizzera italiana, where she became Vice-Dean of Research in 2021. Her group kept a strong interest in NOD-like receptors involved in antigen presentation and in the study of selected genes impacting the response by T and natural killer cells. Currently, she is member of the SNSF Evaluation panel "Biology and Medicine division" and president elect of the Swiss Society for Allergology and Immunology (SSAI), while she has been member of the Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology and of the Swiss Academy of Sciences, Forum for Genetic Research. For her scientific contributions, she was awarded the Premio Fondazione Dr. Ettore Balli 2018, the Pfizer Research Prize 2019, and the Friedrich Miescher Award 2020.