Speaker: Fred Ramsdell
Dr. Ramsdell will discuss the work that resulted in the 2025 Nobel Prize: the basic mechanisms by which our immune system responds to pathogens without, in most cases, attacking our own tissues, and the implications of this work for the development of a new therapeutic paradigm.
Bio:
Fred Ramsdell is an immunologist, a Nobel Prize laureate, and an advisor at Sonoma Biotherapeutics, a biotechnology company co-founded by him. Fred was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Mary E. Brunkow and Shimon Sakaguchi for their work in peripheral tolerance. See more about Fred and his work here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Ramsdell