Primary Job Title Co-Chair Primary Organization University of Zurich
Location Switzerland, Europe Regions Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Gender Male
Burkhard Becher is the Scientific Advisory Board of Trogenix. Burkhard Becher is the co-chair of the Institute of Experimental Immunology at the University of Zurich. He studied Biology at the University of Cologne in Germany with specializaton in Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry. He received his PhD in 1995 from McGill University in Canada for
his thesis in the field of Neuroimmunology.
In 1999 he joined Randy Noelle’s lab at the Dartmouth Medical School (NH, USA), where he discovered the fundamental role of interleukin-23 in the development of autoimmunity that led to a paradigm shift in immunology. In 2003, he was recruited as Assistant Professor to the University Hospital of Zurich. In 2008 he became a full professor at the University of Zurich, where he studies autoimmunity, tumor immunology and cytokine biology.
His fundamental contribution to the field has been published in the leading scientific journals. Professor Becher is a senior member of the international advisory board of the international society of Neuroimmunology (ISNI). Most recently he was awarded the Robert Bing Price for Neuroscience, the Biogen Dompé MS-Research Price and the Prof. Max Cloëtta Award, adding to the various honors he has received for his scientific work.
