Biography:
Prof. Michele Mishto is Professor in Immunobiology at the King’s College London and Senior Group leader at the Francis Crick Institute in London (UK). PhD in Medical Biotechnology at University of Bologna (ITA) and a long post-doc and project leader experience at the Institute of Biochemistry at Universitätsmedizin Charite’ Berlin (GER). His research focuses on antigen presentation and proteasomes. He particularly contributed to the identification and characterisation of noncanonical peptides such as proteasome-generated spliced peptides, investigating their antigenicity and immunogenicity in cancer and infections. Mishto is currently consultant for GSK.
Title : Pathogen-derived noncanonical epitopes: Are they valuable targets for novel vaccinations and shall we be concerned about autoimmune responses?