Jean-Pierre Mach received his medical degree at the University of Geneva and trained from 1963 to 1967 as a Postdoctoral fellow at the Massachussetts General Hospital in Boston. He specialized in the field of tumor markers at the Department of Immunobiology (formerly Biochemistry) of our University where he became Professor in 1976. From 1978 to 1986, he was associate director of the Lausanne branch from the Ludwig Institute. At his retirement from a double appointment at ISREC and our University, he joined Prof. G. Corradin's group to pursue his research with Dr Alena Donda, project leader, on antibody-mediated targeting of antigenic MHC class I complexes and MHC related molecules on tumor cells. |