After completing his M.D. and Ph.D. at the University of Pisa, Gennaro De Libero joined the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology in 1984 as a postdoctoral fellow in Professor Stefan Kaufman's laboratory, supported by a long-term EMBO fellowship. In 1988, he moved to the Basel Institute of Immunology and, in 1990, to the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Basel, where he took responsibility for the Experimental Immunology Group and was appointed as full Professor of Immunology. From 2010 to 2016, he served as Director of the Tuberculosis Unit at the Singapore Immunology Network. Upon returning to Basel, he resumed his research as a Group Leader at the Department of Biomedicine at the University of Basel. He is also a co-founder of the Upper Rhine Immunology Society.
His primary scientific focus is on the antigen specificities of non-MHC-restricted T cells and their role in physiology and disease.

Seminar topic: Carbonyl adducts of nucleobases are new antigens stimulating T cells