{"id":5793,"date":"2023-10-05T11:17:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T09:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isrec.ch\/?p=5793"},"modified":"2024-03-28T13:39:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T12:39:23","slug":"prof-mikael-pittet-holder-of-the-isrec-foundations-immuno-oncology-chair-at-the-university-of-geneva-presented-with-the-rayonnement-academique-award-of-the-societe-academique-vaudoise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isrec.ch\/en\/prof-mikael-pittet-holder-of-the-isrec-foundations-immuno-oncology-chair-at-the-university-of-geneva-presented-with-the-rayonnement-academique-award-of-the-societe-academique-vaudoise\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Mika\u00ebl Pittet, holder of the ISREC Foundation\u2019s Immuno-Oncology Chair at the University of Geneva, presented with the Rayonnement Acad\u00e9mique Award of the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Acad\u00e9mique Vaudoise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Tuesday, October 3<sup>rd<\/sup>, Prof. Mika\u00ebl Pittet was presented with the Rayonnement Acad\u00e9mique Award of the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Acad\u00e9mique Vaudoise by its president, Dr. Cyrille Piguet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This prestigious prize, awarded for the first time in 2014, honors \u201cthose who make the university shine\u201d. Thus, this distinction underlines Prof. Pittet\u2019s outstanding scientific contributions in the field of immunotherapy. His research aims to discover how the immune system controls cancer and other diseases, and how it can be exploited for therapeutic purposes. His work has in particular led to the elucidation of how certain types of cancer are regulated by various cell classes, including cytotoxic and regulatory T cells, macrophages, monocytes, neutrophils and dendritic cells, all of which are considered drug targets for cancer immunotherapies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ISREC Foundation is very proud to support this eminent immunotherapy specialist\u2019s research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isrec.ch\/app\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PRA_MPittet-e1711629255366.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5741\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, October 3rd, Prof. Mika\u00ebl Pittet was presented with the Rayonnement Acad\u00e9mique Award of the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Acad\u00e9mique Vaudoise by its president, Dr. Cyrille Piguet. This prestigious prize, awarded for the first time in 2014, honors \u201cthose who make the university shine\u201d. Thus, this distinction underlines Prof. Pittet\u2019s outstanding scientific contributions in the field of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":5741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isrec.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isrec.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isrec.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isrec.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isrec.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.isrec.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6156,"href":"https:\/\/www.isrec.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793\/revisions\/6156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isrec.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isrec.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isrec.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isrec.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}