Guest speaker Matteo Iannacone
Medical priority Immunotherapy
| Date | 9 June 2026 |
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| Location | Auditorium Sanquin Plesmanlaan 125 1066 CX Amsterdam The Netherlands |
| Time | 15:00 to 16:00 |
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Tuesday 9 June 2026 Prof Matteo Iannacone MD PhD (San Raffaele Scientific Institute - Milan, Italy) will give a guest lecture at Sanquin Amsterdam.
Title: The tissue logic of immune surveillance: lessons from the liver
Host: Brenda Raud
Matteo Iannacone is the Director of the Division of Immunology, Transplantation and Infectious Diseases, Professor of Pathology, and Head of the Dynamics of Immune Responses laboratory at the San Raffaele Scientific Institute and University in Milan, Italy. He obtained a M.D. degree from the University of Milan, Italy, and trained as a postdoctoral fellow at The Scripps Research Institute and at Harvard Medical School. By combining cutting-edge in vivo imaging techniques, single-cell technologies and advanced animal models, Matteo has made fundamental contributions to our understanding of adaptive immune responses against pathogens and tumors. He has received numerous awards for his work, including ERC Starting, Consolidator and Advanced Grants amongst others. He is an elected member of the Henry Kunkel Society and of EMBO and serves as the Editor-in-Chief of European Journal of Immunology and in the editorial board of several other journals. He has published more than 125 papers that received more than 17,000 citations with an H-index of 61. His recent work has highlighted the crucial role of CD4 T cells licensing Kupffer cells to reverse CD8 T cell dysfunction induced by hepatocellular priming during HBV infection (Venzin et al. 2025, Nat Immunol)