Prof. Mübeccel Akdis-SIAF. Dr Akdis is an MD, PhD working in the Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research (SIAF) since 1995 and received her PhD in Immunology. Dr Akdis worked as a postdoctoral scientist and  became a group leader at SIAF, where she has established her own research group in 2003.

Dr Akdis made her habilitation (Venia Legendi) in Zurich University Medical Faculty on Experimental Immunology in 2005 and became a professor in 2015. She has published more than 400 peer-reviewed research articles that have an h-index of 100. Her major reseach contributions are on mechanisms of allergen tolérance, high dose allergen exposure models in humans, mechanisms of  allergen-specific immunotherapy, functions of T regulatory cells, NK regulatory cells and IL-10 producing human B regulatory cells.

She has received many research grants and collaborative grants from the Swiss National Foundation and European Union. She received numerous awards, including Ferdinand Wortman Prize, Professor Hans Storck Award, Sedat Simavi Medicine Award, APAACI Women in Science Award, Eczacıbası Award, American College of Allergy Asthma Immunology Distinguished Fellow. She is in the editorial board of the Journals Allergy, European Journal of Immunology, International Archieves of Allergy Immunology.

She is the scientific Committee Chair of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.