Prof. Dr Robert Thimme on the potential of structural immunity for understanding the immune system

10 December 2023 marks the 180th anniversary of Robert Koch's birth. According to neuropathologist Prof. Dr Marco Prinz, Koch, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine, “laid the foundation for the knowledge we have today about the immune system. He discovered two key things: that certain pathogens play a role in organ diseases and that these also trigger an immune response.” 150 years after the "pioneers of immunology", as molecular immunologist Prof. Dr Susana Minguet calls Koch and his contemporaries, an interdisciplinary team led by Prinz, Minguet and hepatologist Prof. Dr Robert Thimme is working towards new concepts that could fundamentally change our understanding of the immune system. At the centre of this is the idea of structural immunity.
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