Silvio Barandun

Silvio Barandun (born January 25, 1920 - † August 7, 2014 ) was a Swiss physician.

The native of Graubünden completed his medical studies at the University of Zurich in 1948 and received his doctorate in medicine three years later at the Physiological Institute under Walter Rudolf Hess . Until 1953 he worked at the Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology at the University of Bern and then moved to the tuberculosis ward of the Bernese Tiefenauspital, where he was promoted to senior physician in pulmonology and head of the bacteriological laboratory in 1956. Here he researched immunodeficiencies as a result of a lack of antibodies in the blood and, together with H. Büchler and A. Hässig, coined the term antibody deficiency syndrome. With his work on gamma globulin therapy, he completed his habilitation in 1962 at the University of Bern.

In 1963 he became director of the Swiss Center for Clinical Tumor Research. In 1971 he was promoted to professor and in 1982 to full professor of tumor immunology.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Silvio Barandun: Obituaries. In: trauer.nzz.ch. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , August 13, 2014, accessed on February 12, 2016.
2. ↑ saez.ch