Federica Sallusto

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Federica Sallusto
Born1967 (age 57–58)
NationalityItaly; Switzerland
Scientific career
Fieldsbiology, immunology

Federica Sallusto (born 27 November 1961 in Naples, Italy) is an Italian-Swiss biologist and immunologist. After high school, she studied Biology at Sapienza - University of Rome where she graduated cum laude . She earned her PhD in biology in 1988 from the University of Sapienza, followed by two postdoctoral fellowships at the National Italian Institute of Health in Rome, Italy (1989–91) and the Basel Institute of Immunology in Basel, Switzerland (1993–95). [1]

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In 1999, Sallusto, alongside David Dombrowicz, was awarded the Pharmacia Allergy Research Foundation Award, which is given annually to researchers under the age of 40 who are working on IgE‐associated disease. [2] In 2009, Sallusto was invited to give the Novartis Behring Lecture, [3] which is a prestigious annual award that is given to an exceptional scientist in the field of virology, immunology or microbiology.

Sallusto was the president of the Swiss Society of Allergology and Immunology from 2013-15. Currently, she is group leader at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Bellinzona, Switzerland [4] since 2000, Director of the Center of Medical Immunology and Head of the Cellular Immunology Laboratory at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) since 2016, and a professor of Medical Immunology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland since 2017. [1] Sallusto is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board at the University of Babel. [5]

Research

Sallusto's research focuses on the role of dendritic cells and T cells in immune system responses, with special attention to the T helper cells Th1, Th2, Th17 and Th22. [6] Her work was the first to characterize antigen-specific memory T cells as "effector memory T cells" (TEM) and "central memory T cells" (TCM). [7]

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Federica+Sallusto

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  2. ↑ O'Byrne, P. M. (March 2005). "Pharmacia Allergy Research Foundation and its Award for Young Scientists in Allergy Research". Allergy. 60 (3): 269–270. doi:10.1111/j.1398-9995.2005.00800.x. PMID   15679710.
  3. ↑ Switzerland, Albadream Engineering-Software development in Lugano (2009-11-25). "Federica Sallusto Gives the Novartis Behring Lecture". IRB USI. Retrieved 2025-03-17.
  4. ↑ Castelli, Paolo Rossi (13 December 2018). "Medicina, ecco dove ci porterà la ricerca". Corriere del Ticino (in Italian). Retrieved 6 January 2018.
  5. ↑ "Advisory Board | Department of Biomedicine | University of Basel". biomedizin.unibas.ch. Retrieved 2025-03-17.
  6. ↑ "Federica Sallusto". European Federation of Immunological Societies. Retrieved 2025-03-17.
  7. ↑ Sallusto, Federica; Lenig, Danielle; Förster, Reinhold; Lipp, Martin; Lanzavecchia, Antonio (October 1999). "Two subsets of memory T lymphocytes with distinct homing potentials and effector functions" . Nature. 401 (6754): 708–712. Bibcode:1999Natur.401..708S. doi:10.1038/44385. ISSN   1476-4687. PMID   10537110.


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