04, In the news
Highlights from the press desk: new faculty and professorships, fresh science in major journals, broadcast features, and the spinout company Baxiva, building glycoconjugate vaccines for the world's most stubborn bacteria.
New Faculty Appointment: The BIIE Welcomes Prof. Emma Slack
The Botnar Institute of Immune Engineering (BIIE) proudly welcomes Prof. Emma Slack to its growing faculty. Prof. Slack holds a joint appointment as the Barclay-Williams Professor of Molecular Immunology at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology within the University of Oxford.[...]
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Welcome to Baxiva – a startup that originated in the Slack Lab
Check out Baxiva, a biotechnology startup developing next-generation glycoconjugate vaccines to combat bacterial infections. Their mission is to address urgent global health needs by targeting...
Boosting vaccines with harmless bacteria to fight intestinal pathogens
Published in Science, a ground-breaking study by the Slack group reveals how combining vaccines with friendly bacteria can boost vaccination efficacy and potentially reduce reliance...
Welcome to the Hausmann Group
The Slack Lab warmly welcomes the laboratory for Mucosal Crosstalk. Their research is dedicated to understanding how the interactions between our microbiota, the intestinal epithelium,...
Women in Science – Prof. Emma Slack
Interview from the Swiss Young Immunologist Society with Emma. Learn about Emma's passion for immunology, why Emma wanted to become a scientist and how diversity...
Emma Slack appointed new Professor of Molecular Immunology
We are delighted to announce that Professor Emma Slack is joining the Dunn School as the inaugural Barclay-Williams Professor of Molecular Immunology, in association with...
Botnar Research Centre for Child Health introducing MIP
Check out the latest video from the Botnar Research Centre for Child Health (BRCCH) introducing the multi-investigator research project led by Prof Emma Slack, ETH...
Botnar Research Centre for Child Health
Have a look at the video of the BRCCH introducing itself and its mission. It also includes some insights into the different research projects that...
SRF Puls on vaccine research
Watch the SRF Puls coverage on our research on Corona virus vaccines....
Impfung treibt Salmonellen in die Evolutions-Falle
Schädliche Darmbakterien mutieren und machen uns so das Leben schwer. Doch die Mutationen könnten ihnen auch zum Verhängnis werden....
A rationally designed oral vaccine induces immunoglobulin A in the murine gut that directs the evolution of attenuated Salmonella variants
Intestinal antibodies (IgA) can exert selective pressure on intestinal bacteria. Via oral vaccines, we can manipulate these selective pressures to force evolution of Salmonella that...
NCCR women: Emma Slack, Immunologin
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of women's right to vote in Switzerland, the NCCR has launched a campagin introducing female researchers in Switzerland....
Spark Award Nomination 2020
Watch the video and learn more about evolutionary trap vaccines....