Thierry Calandra#
| Membership Number: | 5509 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-3051-1285 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1981 - 1991 Resident, Research fellow, Chief resident, Division of Infectious Diseases, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland
- 09.1991 - 08.1992 Post-doctoral fellow, Laboratory of Cellular Physiology and Immunology, The Rockefeller University, New York, USA
- 09.1992 - 09.1996 Senior Scientist, Assistant Professor, The Picower Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, New York, USA
- 10.1996 - 06.2006 Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases Service, Department of Medicine, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland
- 07.2006 - present Professor of Medicine, Head, Infectious Diseases Service, Department of Medicine, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland
- 08.2012 - 12.2016 Chair, Department of Medicine, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland
Fields of Scholarship
- Innate immunity
- Cytokines (macrophage migration inhibitory factor)
- Sepsis
- Infections in critically ill patients
- Infections immunocompromised hosts, including neutropenic cancer patients
- Fungal infections in the intensive care unit
Honours and Awards
- 2017 Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences, member of the Senate
- 2017 European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Excellence Award
- 2013 Professor Jürg Tschopp Prize for Life Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lausanne
- 2012 Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases, Honorary Life Member, in recognition of “Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Infectious Diseases”
- 2002 Career Award, Fondation Leenaards
- 2001 Professeur Dr. Max Cloëtta Prize
- 1999 Swiss Society for Infectious Diseases, Hoechst-Marion Roussel Award
- 1996 Swiss National Science Foundation, SCORE A Program Award
- 1993 Thesis award, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
