How does our immune system work and what does it have to do with the Nobel Prize? An understandable insight into current research and its significance for our everyday lives.
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26. November 2025 -
18:00 Uhr |
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The human immune system protects the body from viruses, bacteria and tumor cells, but can also act against the body's own structures in the wrong way.
The work of this year's Nobel Prize winner and her two colleagues, who also received awards, shows the role played by so-called regulatory T cells: They slow down overactive immune reactions without weakening the body's defenses as a whole.
These findings form the basis for new approaches in transplantation medicine, autoimmune diseases and cancer therapy.
In her lecture, Prof. Dr. Elisa Wirthgen (Chair of Cell Biology, HSZG) will explain the background to this research and show why such discoveries are also relevant to our everyday lives.
There will be an opportunity for questions and discussion afterwards. Drinks will be provided.
Registration is requested for better planning, spontaneous guests are also welcome.
Date: Wednesday, November 26, 2025
Start: 18:00
Location: House IVb, Room 1.01, Theodor-Körner-Allee 8, 02763 Zittau
An event of the Faculty of Natural and Environmental Sciences and Saxony5.
