ITI Speaker Series: Alessandro Sette, Dr.Biol.Sci.

Alessandro Sette, Dr.Biol.Sci, Professor at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology

Dr. Alessandro Sette devoted more than 40 years to understand and measure immune responses. He coauthored more than 1,000 peer reviewed articles and has an H-factor of 200. Dr Sette focus is to characterize beneficial immune responses (for example fighting infection), as opposed to immune responses that are ineffective or cause harm (such as allergies, cancer or autoimmunity).  Over the last 20 years, Dr. Sette has overseen the Immune Epitope Database (IEDB), a freely available bioinformatics resource, which receives > 40,000 visits a month.