Antonio Lanzavecchia

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Full Name	Antonio Lanzavecchia
Occupation	Biologist
Date Of Birth	Oct 9, 1951(1951-10-09)
Age	73
Birthplace	Varese
Country	Italy
Birth City	Lombardy
Horoscope	Libra

Antonio Lanzavecchia Biography

Antonio Lanzavecchia is one of the most popular and richest Biologist who was born on October 9, 1951 in Varese, Lombardy, Italy.

Since 1980 he focussed on human immunology, first at the University of Genoa, at the Basel Institute for Immunology and, from 1999 at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Bellinzona, of which he is the founding Director. He has been teaching Immunology at the University of Genoa and the University of Siena and since 2009 is professor of Human Immunology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. Since January 2014 he had been appointed President of the Fondazione Regionale per la Ricerca Biomedica of the Region Lombardy, Italy.

Human monoclonal antibodies and vaccine design: Taking advantage of his studies on human memory B cells (16), Lanazvecchia developed novel and robust methods to immortalize human memory B cells and to preserve single plasma cells in culture (17, 18). He used these methods to interrogate the memory repertoire of selected individuals to isolate monoclonal antibodies with unique specificities. Several examples illustrate the power and utility of this approach. Neutralizing antibodies were isolated against SARS, cytomegalovirus, avian influenza and dengue virus. Unusually potent antibodies that neutralize human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) were isolated and their epitopes mapped to a pentameric glycoprotein complex, which is currently tested as a candidate vaccine. The most striking examples are antibodies with exceptional breadth, being able to neutralize all influenza A viruses and even four different paramyxoviruses (18,19). The methods to isolate human monoclonal antibodies developed by Lanzavecchia have realized a long-sought goal: the full exploitation of the human immune response for serotherapy and vaccine design. These fully human monoclonal antibodies can be used not only as drugs for prophylaxis and therapy of infectious diseases, but also as tools to identify vaccine candidates, a process defined as “analytic vaccinology” (20). The present work in Lanzavecchia’s laboratory addresses fundamental issues on the role of somatic mutations and the pathways leading to the development of broadly neutralizing antibodies and explores the relationship between infection and autoimmunity (21).

Antonio Lanzavecchia Net Worth

Antonio Lanzavecchia is one of the richest Biologist from Italy. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Antonio Lanzavecchia 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Antonio Lanzavecchia (born in Varese October 9, 1951) is an Italian immunologist. He was a fellow of Collegio Borromeo and obtained his degree with honors in Medicine in 1976 from the University of Pavia where he specialized in Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases.

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Michalis Ranked on the list of most popular Biologist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Italy. Antonio Lanzavecchia celebrates birthday on October 9 of every year.