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When the Immune System's Best Soldiers Disappear: New Insight into Why Chronic Infections Defeat Our Antibody Response (Pinschewer Lab)

During chronic viral infection, the immune system selectively loses the most potent antibody producing cells while the weaker cells survive, the Pinschewer lab and collaborators show. Intriguingly, it appears, the immune system doesn’t fail…

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Department of Biomedicine Newsletter No. 13

We are pleased to announce the release of the thirteenth edition of our DBM newsletter. We hope you enjoy reading it!

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New professorship for Cellular Therapies (Läubli Lab)

The University Council of the University of Basel has appointed Professor Heinz Läubli as Clinical Professor of Cellular Therapies at the Faculty of Medicine.

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Welcome to the Team – Magdalena Sznurkowska Lab!

We are delighted to welcome Prof. Dr. Magdalena Sznurkowska as a new research group leader at the Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel. She will join our Department on May 1, 2026, where she will establish the Metastasis Biology…

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How the immune system battles lifelong viral infections acquired at birth (Pinschewer Lab)

Millions of people worldwide carry viral infections they acquired at birth, often for life. For a long time it was assumed that the immune system hardly fights these pathogens. Researchers from the University of Basel show now that the…

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