Antonio Lanzavecchia MD, PhD, Prof. Dr, Director of the Institute for Research and Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland, Professor of Human Immunology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland..
Antonio Lanzavecchia earned a degree in Medicine at the University of Pavia where he specialized in Paediatrics and in Infectious Diseases. From 1983 to 1999, he worked at the Basel Institute for Immunology and since 1999 he is the Director of the Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Bellinzona. He taught immunology at the Universities of Genova and Siena in Italy, and since 2009 is Professor of Human Immunology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich. He is Member of the EMBO and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. Awarded the EMBO medal in 1988 and the Cloëtta prize in 1999. His research has covered several aspects of immunology: from antigen processing and presentation to dendritic cell biology, from lymphocyte activation and trafficking to T and B cell memory.