Adriano Fontana

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Adriano Fontana (born August 19, 1946 in Zurich ) is a Swiss doctor and immunologist . He was Clinic Director of the Clinic for Immunology at the University Hospital Zurich and Professor at the Medical Faculty and the Mathematics and Natural Sciences Faculty of the University of Zurich .

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Fontana studied medicine at the University of Zurich and, after training at the University Hospital in Zurich, received the specialist title for internal medicine in 1979. He received his doctorate in 1973 from the University of Zurich and was a postdoctoral fellow in 1979 at the Harvard Medical School in Boston and at the Institute for Molecular Biology II at the University of Zurich. He became assistant professor (1987), associate professor (1993) and full professor for internal medicine, especially clinical immunology at the University of Zurich (2004) and director of the Clinic for Immunology at the University Hospital Zurich (2004). Medical activity at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester (USA), the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Harvard Medical School in Boston and the Grosshadern Clinic of the University of Munich. From 2010 to 2017 he worked as a senior research professor for neurosciences at the Institute for Experimental Immunology at the University of Zurich , appointed by the non-profit Hertie Foundation .

He carried out research in the field of neuroimmunology and was the first to discover transforming growth factor beta2 (TGFbeta2) as an immunosuppressive principle formed by glioblastomas, the importance of the neurotoxicity transmitted by activated microglial cells in the brain via the xCT antiporter and glutamate, and the inhibition of clock genes by cytokines . The work can be found in more than 200 international journals (including Science, Nature, Nature Immunology, Nature Medicine, Cell and J. Exp. Med., Lancet, J. Clin. Invest and EMBO).

Adriano Fontana is married and has two daughters.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adrian Ritter: The desire for research remains. In: UZH News. University of Zurich , October 7, 2009, accessed on August 7, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Hertie Senior Research Professorship in Neurosciences. Not-for-profit Hertie Foundation , accessed on August 7, 2019 .
  3. ↑ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=tEPoJzoAAAAJ&hl=en
  4. ^ Cloëtta Prize. Foundation Prof. Dr. Max Cloëtta, accessed August 7, 2019 .
  5. ↑ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=tEPoJzoAAAAJ&hl=en
personal data
SURNAME Fontana, Adriano
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss immunologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich