Michel Gilliet

Head of the Department of Dermatology and Venereology · CHUV · company speakers →

A specialist in cutaneous immune response and development of immunotherapy for melanoma, Michel Gilliet was appointed full professor at the Faculty of Biology and Medicine of UNIL and head of the Department of Dermatology and Venereology of the CHUV in December 2010. Prof Gilliet obtained his medical degree at the University of Zurich in 1995. He continued his postgraduate training in experimental medicine first, then in dermatology from 1997 to 2004, when he received his FMH in dermatology. During this period, he also spent two years (1999-2001) at the DNAX Research Institute in Palo Alto, California, as a postdoctoral researcher. In 2009 he became the co-director of the Center Cancer Inflammation with an affiliation to three Departments: for the clinic, the Department of Dermatology and, for research, the Departments of Immunology and Oncology medical melanoma. In this renowned centre, Michel Gilliet provides dermatology consultation and training of assistant doctors. He devotes more than half of his time to research activities and deals in particular with the follow-up of melanomas, through immunotherapy protocols. A specialist in the cutaneous immune response, his researcher is also working on psoriasis and other inflammatory skin diseases such as lupus erythematosus. In particular, the importance of antimicrobial peptides in the cutaneous immune response and the pathogenesis of these inflammatory diseases of the skin.

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