Scientific Advisory Board

Marcus Thelen, PhD, is Honorary Professor at the University of Bern. In 2000, he co-founded the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) in Bellinzona and headed the Signal Transduction Laboratory until his retirement in 2022. In 1989, he joined the group of Alan Aderem in the Laboratory of Cellular Physiology and Immunology of the Cohn/Steinman Department at Rockefeller University, focusing on cytokine-mediated phagocyte priming and signal transduction. Following a Swiss National Science Foundation award, Marcus led a research group on leukocyte signal transduction in Bern. Marcus received his PhD from the University of Bern, specializing in inflammation and chemokines at the Theodor Kocher Institute.