Forschungsgruppe Roberto Speck

Aktuelle Projekte

We have a very active program in experimental HIV medicine, in particular immunotherapy and gene engineering an HIV resistant immune system, and in gene-engineering monocytes/macrophages to fight cancer. We use all kinds of in vitro and in vivo methods. Ultimate goal is to gain insight into HIV pathogenesis, the immune network and to advance gene engineering as well as to provide pre-clinical proof of concept for future clinical trials.

The laboratory of Dr. Speck is very well embedded in the research place of Zurich and benefits from its unique scientific richness. Notably, we have very active international collaborations for the gene engineering part (Prof. Michael Pepper, University of Pretoria (SA) and Prof. Karl-Heinz Krause, University of Geneva (CH)), for studying IFNs (Prof. Gideon Schreiber, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) and for immunotherapy (Prof. Giuseppe Pantaleo, University of Lausanne and Prof. Renata Stripecke, University of Hannover).

The laboratory is well financed by various foundations, among others by the Swiss National Science, Swiss Vaccine Institute and the VonTobel Foundation.

Kontakt

Klinik für Infektionskrankheiten und Spitalhygiene
Prof. Dr. med. Roberto Speck
Universitätsspital Zürich
Rämistrasse 100
8091 Zürich

Tel. +41 44 255 37 75

Team

Roberto Speck, Prof. Dr. med.

Oberarzt meV, Klinik für Infektionskrankheiten und Spitalhygiene

Tel. +41 44 255 33 22
Spezialgebiete: Viruserkrankungen (HIV, EBV, CMV, JC, Covid19 etc.), Sexuell übertragbare Erkrankungen, Antimikrobielle Therapien

Simon Bredl

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Klinik für Infektionskrankheiten und Spitalhygiene

Tel. +41 44 255 91 90

Luca Baroncini

Doktorand, Klinik für Infektionskrankheiten und Spitalhygiene

Tel. +41 44 255 33 67

Nicole Patrizia Kadzioch

Postdoktorandin, Klinik für Infektionskrankheiten und Spitalhygiene

Tel. +41 44 255 92 39

Doris Russenberger

Laborantin, Klinik für Infektionskrankheiten und Spitalhygiene

Tel. +41 44 255 21 84

Edoardo Sarti

Doktorand, Klinik für Infektionskrankheiten und Spitalhygiene

Tel. +41 43 253 14 44

Sabrina Traxel

Postdoktorandin, Klinik für Infektionskrankheiten und Spitalhygiene

Rebekka Wolfensberger

Laborantin, Klinik für Infektionskrankheiten und Spitalhygiene

Tel. +41 44 255 17 26