since 2010
Action Research Professor of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, UK; Head of Research, Department of Child and Women's Health, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, UK; Subject Leader, Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, UK; Full Professor of Paediatric Immunology, University of Basel, Switzerland

since 2007
Visiting Professor, Institute for Genome Research, University of Tokushima, Japan

since 2003
Founding member of the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer, University of Montreal, Canada

since 2003
Full Professor, University of Basel

2000-2010
Member of the Board of the Department of Clinical Biological Sciences

1999-2010
Head of Research, University Children's Hospital Basel
Structural Associate Professorship, University of Basel

1997
Habilitation in paediatrics, especially immunology, University of Basel

1996-2004
Scientific Head of Animal Husbandry, Research Department, University Hospitals Basel

1995-1999
Consultant, University Children's Hospital Basel and Research Group Leader, Research Department, University Hospitals Basel

1995-2000
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

1994-1995
Instructor, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

1984
Swiss and US medical licence

1977-1983
Medical studies at the University of Basel

1977
Matura, Gymnasium Münchenstein, Basel-Land, Switzerland

1964-1977
Primary and secondary school in Basel, Switzerland and Connecticut, USA

Clinical training

1986-1989
Specialist training in paediatrics, University Children's Hospital Basel, Switzerland

1985-1986
Fellowship in Pulmonology, The Children's Hospital, Harvard University, Boston, USA

Research training

1989-1994
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Paediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

1987
Visiting scientist, Basel Institute for Immunology, Basel, Switzerland

1985
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Basel Institute for Immunology, Basel, Switzerland

1983
Basel Institute for Immunology, Basel, Switzerland

• Lectures in Immunology at the Medical Faculty of the University of Basel
• Teaching of diploma, graduate and postgraduate students in biology at the Universities of Basel and Bern
• Training of graduate students at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the University of Basel, Switzerland
• Postgraduate training, Research Department, University Hospitals Basel, Switzerland

• Thymus and T cell development, repertoire selection and T cell tolerance
• Autoimmunity
• Primary immunodeficiencies

Editorial activities

since 2012
Editorial Board of Frontiers in Primary Immunodeficiencies

since 2012
Editorial Board of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology (PAI)

2000-2003
Development Immunology, European Editor

Scientific reviews

• Scientific member of the AIDS Commission of the Swiss National Science Foundation
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Basel Cancer League
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Abisch-Frenkel Foundation for Biomedical Research
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Novartis Foundation
• Member of the expert group for 'Primary Immunodeficiencies' of the National Institute of Health (NIH), Bethesda, USA
• Scientific reviewer for the Wellcome Trust (England), the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences

Expert for

Blood, European Journal of Immunology, European Journal of Paediatrics, Human Molecular Genetics, International Immunology, Nature Immunology, Science, Transplantation, Blood and Bone Marrow Transplantation Immunity, Journal of Experimental Medicine, Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry, Nature Reviews Immunology, Trends in Immunology

Scientific consulting activities

• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Allergy Management in Childhood, Danone Medical and Baby Nutrition
• Expert member of the Advisory Board of the French Evaluation Agency for Research and Higher Education (AERES), France
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy, Milan, Italy
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Spemann Graduate School of Biology and Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
• Consultant for the Institute for Cancer and Immune Research (IRIC) at the University of Montreal, Canada
• Former and current scientific advisor to several biotech companies in Australia, Europe and the USA

since 2012
Corresponding member of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMS)

since 2011
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (Fellow)

since 2008
Member of the Swiss National Science Foundation Commission 'Scholarships for Advanced Researchers'

since 2007
Member of the Advisory Board of the US Immunodeficiency Network of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, USA

2001-2005
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Swiss National Science Foundation's Subcommittee on HIV

since 2000
Member of the scientific committee of the Basel Cancer League and the Abisch-Frenkel Foundation

2000-2005
Member of the expert group for 'Vaccines' for the Federal Office of Public Health

since 1998
Swiss Society for Allergology and Immunology

since 1992
European Society of Immunodeficiencies

since 1989
Swiss Society for Paediatrics

since 1988
Society for Paediatric Immunology

since 1986
Swiss Medical Association (FMH)

2009
Fanconi Prize

1999
Pfizer Research Prize in Immunology

1995-1996
National Kidney Foundation, USA, Young Investigator Award

1995
C. von Piquet Lectureship, University of Vienna, Austria

1992-1995
Alexander Abraham Research Investigator, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA