Marta Vives-Pi

Position

Head of the Diabetes Immunology Group at the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP, Badalona) and associate professor of Immunology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona

Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital, Autonomous University of Barcelona

Topics

immunology, diabetes

Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for understanding how the immune system is kept under control without attacking organs

immunology

Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for understanding how the immune system is kept under control without attacking organs

SMC Spain

The Karolinska Institute has awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for describing how the immune system is regulated so as not to harm us. His groundbreaking discoveries on peripheral immune tolerance have spurred the development of new treatments for cancer and autoimmune diseases.