Speaker

Mikael Pittet earned his PhD in Immunology from the University of Lausanne in 2001, then conducted research at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Named MGH Research Scholar in 2015, he became Director of Cancer Immunology at the Center for Systems Biology in 2016 and a full Harvard Professor in 2019. He joined UNIGE's Faculty of Medicine in 2020, where he holds the ISREC Foundation Chair in Onco-Immunology. He is also the Director of the Translational Research Centre in Onco-haematology of UNIGE Faculty of Medicine, and a consultant in the Department of Oncology of the University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG). His research, based at Lausanne's Agora Cancer Center, investigates immune system roles in cancer, targeting immune cells like T cells and macrophages for therapy.

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