Giorgio Ferrari,
Associate Director Immunology

Giorgio joined Granite-Bio in June 2023 as Associate Director in Immunology. His history starts in Milano in the early 80ies at the Institute of Pharmacology Research ‘’Mario Negri’’ focusing on hematology and immunology in the laboratory of A. Mantovani. He later moved, for the next 10 years, to the Basel Institute for Immunology, pursuing projects on antigen presentation and host-pathogen interaction. These topics, with Prof. J. Pieters, continued in the Biozentrum (University Basel) until 2005, when he moved to Actelion/Idorsia for the next 17 years. Here, as laboratory head, Giorgio was involved in projects ranging from autoimmunity, inflammation and, in the last years, in immunooncology. In the most recent years, he went back to Academia working on autoimmunity projects. During these different experiences, Giorgio build up knowledge mainly on human immunology covering both innate and adaptive immunity.