Onur Boyman
Onur Boyman obtained his MD degree from the University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland, in 2000. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, US; a principal investigator and clinical fellow at Division of Immunology and Allergology of University Hospital of Lausanne; and obtained a professorship of the Swiss National Science Foundation. Since 2014, he is professor and chair of clinical immunology at UZH and director of the Department of Immunology at University Hospital Zurich. He is interested in the function of cytokines in the immune system during health and disease. His research group studies how cytokines coordinate immune homeostasis and responses, and how they stimulate various immune cells in vitro and in different models of cancer, inflammatory and autoimmune disease, as well as allograft rejection. They generate and characterize natural versus modified cytokine formulations, including cytokine-antibody complexes, in order to better understand cytokine biology and improve cytokine-directed immunotherapy.
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PRESENTATION SUMMARY
Molecular modulation of cytokines for precision immunotherapy of cancer and immunopathology
Cytokines play important roles in humans and animals by enabling immunity against pathogens as well as by regulating inflammation and immunopathology. We are studying modified cytokine formulations that improve and direct the actions of a given cytokine toward certain immune cells and allow improved immunotherapy of cancer and immune-mediated disorders, such as autoimmune disease and transplantation.