Giuseppe Pantaleo, M.D.

Executive Director

Giuseppe Pantaleo, M.D., Professor of medicine, is Chief of the Division of Immunology and Allergy. He is also Chief of the Laboratory of AIDS Immunopathogenesis at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), University of Lausanne, Switzerland. During the past fifteen years, Professor Pantaleo’s research has been focused on the delineation of the immunopathogenesis of HIV infection and of other viral infections such as cytomegalovirus and hepatitis C virus. His research activities have been focused on human T cell cloning, human T cell phenotypic and functional analysis, T cell activation, differentiation and memory, immunopathogenesis of HIV infection, HIV distribution in different anatomic compartments, antiretroviral therapy, immune reconstitution after antiretroviral therapy, immune-based therapeutic strategies and vaccines.

Since 2007, Professor Pantaleo is the Director of the Swiss Vaccine Research Institute located in Lausanne. Professor Pantaleo is author and co-author of more than 200 publications in international scientific peer reviewed journals. He has been honored with the following prizes: Cloetta-Award in Basic and Clinical Experimental Medicine (2000), Pfizer Research Prize in Clinical Research in Infectious Diseases (1999), National Institutes of Health NIH Director’s Award (1996), Academia dei Lincei – Award in Basic and Clinical Virology (Guido Lenghi and Flaviano Magrassi Foundation) (1996), Public Health Service Special Achievement (1995), National Institutes of Health Award of Merit (1993).