Onur Boyman MD

Onur Boyman obtained his MD degree from the University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland, in 2000. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, US; a principal investigator and clinical fellow at the Division of Immunology and Allergology of the University Hospital of Lausanne; and obtained a professorship from the Swiss National Science Foundation. Since 2014, he has been a professor and chair of clinical immunology at UZH and director of the Department of Immunology at the University Hospital Zurich. He is interested in the function of cytokines in the immune system during health and disease. His research group studies how cytokines coordinate immune homeostasis and responses, and how they stimulate various immune cells in vitro and in different models of cancer, inflammatory and autoimmune disease, as well as allograft rejection. They generate and characterize natural versus modified cytokine formulations, including cytokine-antibody complexes, in order to better understand cytokine biology and improve cytokine-directed immunotherapy.