© 2020 EPFL / Alain Herzog - EPFL Professor Andrea Ablasser shares the Prize with Professor Michel Gilliet from the CHUV. Their project aims to gain insight into the causes and effects of an overactive innate immune system in people with autoimmune diseases. On Monday June 29, the Fondation Leenaards has awarded its 2020 Scientific Prize to a lemanic team led by EPFL Professor Andrea Ablasser, working in partnership with Professor Michel Gilliet from the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV). Their project, which has been awarded CHF 650,000, aims to gain insight into the causes and effects of an overactive innate immune system in people with autoimmune diseases. The team's research will initially focus on three autoimmune skin diseases: psoriasis, lupus and scleroderma. The team then hopes to use its findings to develop new therapies for a wider range of autoimmune disorders, including chronic inflammatory diseases affecting other organs as well as neurodegenerative diseases. Our innate immune system plays an essential role in protecting us against infections.
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