Michal Bassani-Sternberg
michalbassani.bsky.social
Michal Bassani-Sternberg
@michalbassani.bsky.social
Assistant professor, passionate about personalized cancer vaccines, immunopeptidomics and antigen discovery
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Dear friends at the University of Lausanne - please consider signing this petition

This is to say NO to the funding cut of 24 million CHF that will negatively impact the quality of our teaching & research 🧪🧑🏼‍🎓 - and have a knock-on effect on the local economy

All students, staff, faculty can sign ⏬
Let’s reject budget cuts in education and research!
We, researchers, students, and members of the administrative and technical staff of the University of Lausanne (UNIL), firmly oppose the budget cuts announced for UNIL by the government of Vaud on 24t...
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September 12, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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🇬🇧 How can we identify the best targets for T cell therapies, faster, and from less material? A new method from @michalbassani.bsky.social lab, published in @natcomms.nature.com, brings a powerful solution for #cancer antigen discovery by real-time mass spectrometry.
📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com
August 11, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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How tumours evade the immune system: A review co-led by Florian Huber and @michalbassani.bsky.social (@unil.bsky.social @ludwigcancer.bsky.social) in 𝘕𝘢𝘵 𝘙𝘦𝘷 𝘐𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘰𝘭 examines tumour escape mechanisms and how personalized vaccines could rearm our immune defences.
📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Defects in antigen processing and presentation: mechanisms, immune evasion and implications for cancer vaccine development - Nature Reviews Immunology
Effective tumour-specific T cell immunity — and the success of cancer immunotherapies — relies on the presentation of antigens via human leukocyte antigen (HLA) molecules. In this Review, Bassani-Ster...
www.nature.com
August 13, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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🧫 Comment les #cellules #cancéreuses échappent-elles au #système #immunitaire?
Une nouvelle étude de @michalbassani.bsky.social montre comment des #mutations dans la présentation antigénique #HLA modifient le paysage immunitaire.

🔗 News: www.unil.ch/news/1744033...
How disrupting HLA Class I antigen processing affects the immunopeptidome
How do cancer and infected cells hide from the immune system? A new study reveals how disrupting key genes involved in antigen processing reshapes the repertoire of peptides presented on HLA molecules...
www.unil.ch
April 8, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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📚 In conjunction with #ESMOImmuno24, we had our annual #ESMO #IOTECH Editorial Board meeting today - delighted to see many more academics now here 🦋.

🎯 EiC: @haanenjohn.bsky.social

Section Editors:
@michalbassani.bsky.social (NeoAg/TILs)
@danielathommen.bsky.social (Biomarkers/novel IO targets)...
Gutted not to be Geneva 🇨🇭 for #ESMOImmuno24 in person this year 🥹.

If you are presenting your work at #ESMOImmuno24, and potentially looking for a home for your research work, please consider submitting to our ESMO IOTECH journal:
🔗 esmoiotech.org
December 12, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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Check out our database of 47 POSTDOCTORAL fellowships in cancer/oncology.

For each fellowship, we provide a brief description, link to opportunity, deadline, and eligibility criteria (e.g. citizenship).

Download this database here (Excel file): research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Good luck!
November 24, 2024 at 2:20 PM
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October 18, 2024 at 6:23 PM