Federica Sallusto is an expert in the field of human immunology. Her research has focused on dendritic and T cell traffic, T cell differentiation and immunological memory. Among her contributions are the definition of central and effector memory T cells, the discovery of skin-homing Th22 cells, of non-classic Th1 cells induced by bacteria and of distinct types of Th17 cells with pro-inflammatory and regulatory properties. She also developed a method for the analysis of human naïve and memory T cell repertoires that provides a comprehensive platform for an analytic approach to vaccine design and the in depth characterization of the T cell response in patients with autoimmunity or primary immunodeficiencies. For her scientific achievements, she received the Pharmacia Allergy Research Foundation Award, the Behring Lecture Prize and the Science Award from the Foundation for Study of Neurodegenerative Diseases. She is member of the German National Academy of Science Leopoldina, of EMBO and of the Henry Kunkel Society, international member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and honorary member of the Swiss Society for Allergology and Immunology. In
2022 she was honored with the title of Doctor honoris causa of the Faculty of Science and Medicine, University
of Fribourg.
