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September 30, 2023

From Susumu Tonegawa

Susumu Tonegawa (Nobel Medicine, 1987) worked in the lab of Dulbecco at the Salk Institute in the late 60s. In his autobiography Renato Dulbecco wrote (Translation from page 302 of Dulbecco R. “Scienza, vita e avventura” (Science, life and adventure) Sperling & Kupfer, 1989): "Susumu Tonegawa received the award in 1987 for his amazing work that explained the complex mechanisms that allow the generation of millions of different antibodies from a few hundred genes. He started his speech in Stockholm reading an extract from a letter that I wrote to him around fifteen years before, where I advised him to go to work at the Institute of Immunology in Basel, suggesting that the problems of immunology were ready for a molecular attack. Initially this fact surprised me, but later I understood that with that statement he wanted to emphasize his link with my laboratory".

Susumu Tonegawa:

Thank you so…

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Giovanni Paternostro

September 15, 2023

From Alessandro Sette

Alessandro Sette is a Professor at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology, UCSD. He has devoted more than 35 years to the study of immune responses and was named as one of the top 400 influential researchers in the last 15 years. His lab was first to define successful adaptive response to SARS CoV2 and defined durability of immune memory in natural infection and vaccination. They reported the phenomenon of SARS CoV2 preexisting immune memory in unexposed donors and demonstrated its influence on vaccination outcomes and demonstrated that T cell responses are largely preserved in terms of recognition of SARS CoV2 variants, including Omicron and Delta.

Since the start of the pandemic, he advocated a fact-based approach to informing the general public, though publications, social media and media interviews. This resulted in over 600 interviews, published and/or aired in over 100 different countries. The Data generated by the group…