Dr. Daniela Latorre

Academics Positions

From Jan 2020: SNSF PRIMA Group Leader, Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

2018-2019: Senior Postdoctoral researcher, Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

2013-2017: Postdoctoral researcher, Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB), Università della Svizzera Italiana, Bellinzona, Switzerland

2009-2013: PhD student, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Italy

Education

2009-2013: PhD in Immunology, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Italy

2006-2009: MSc in Medical, Molecular and Cellular Biotechnologies, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Italy

2003-2006: BSc in Biotechnologies, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy

Awards

1.    1st prize of the Franco Regli Foundation 2018/2019 for the best scientific work in fundamental or clinical research within the field of neurodegenerative diseases. Universitätsspital Zurich, Switzerland. January 7, 2021

2.    Pfizer Research Prize 2020 in the field neurological sciences and diseases of the nervous system. Zurich, Switzerland. February 6, 2020.

3.    Best publication in Basic Sleep Research. Swiss Society for Sleep Research, Sleep Medicine and Chronobiology (SSSSC). University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland. June 28, 2019.

4.    Young Scientist Award 2019, from the European Narcolepsy Network (EU-NN), sponsored by the Klaus-Grawe-Foundation. Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland. May 18-19, 2019.

5.    Best International Young Researcher on Narcolepsy, “Icilio Ceretelli” Prize by Associazione Italiana Narcolettici e Ipersonni onlus (AIN), Congresso Europeo AIN, Bologna, Italy, Dec 15, 2018.

Further scientific engagements

Co-founder and Elected President of Swiss Young Immunologists Society (SYIS)

Swiss representative at the European Federation of Young Immunologist (yEFIS)