Sebastian Amigorena


Sebastian Amigorena is an Argentinian-French immunologist and a Team Leader at the Institut Curie.

Education and career

Sebastian Amigorena was born in 1960 in Buenos Aires. He studied biochemistry at Paris Diderot University, earning his Ph.D. in 1990 under the supervision of Wolf H. Fridman, with a thesis titled "FcR expression in B lymphocytes". He then went on to a postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Ira Mellman at Yale Medical School. In 1995, he joined the faculty of the Institut Curie as a team leader, and is now director of the laboratory of Immunity and Cancer. He was elected to the French Academy of Sciences in 2005.

Research

Amigorena's research focuses on antigen presentation by dendritic cells. In particular, Amigorena's research group has studied the processes by which dendritic cells take up, process, and display antigens to T cells, as well as how this process is regulated by regulatory T cells.

Notable works