GEC Members

Chair
Prof. Sylvia Knapp

Laboratory of Infection Biology
Department of Medicine I
Medical University Vienna
Währinger Gürtel 18-20, 1090 Vienna, Austria

Tel. +43 140400-51390
E-mail: sylvia.knapp@meduniwien.ac.at

Past Chair
Prof. Paola Ricciardi-Castagnoli, Ph.D.

Scientific Director
Toscana Life Sciences Foundation (TLS)
Via Fiorentina 1, 53100 Siena, Italy

Tel. +39 3898246258
E-mail: paola.castagnoli@gmail.com
p.castagnoli@toscanalifesciences.org

Co-Chair
Prof. Roslyn Kemp

Department of Microbiology and Immunology,
University of Otago
9010 Dunedin, New Zealand

Tel. +64 3 479 7708
E-mail: roslyn.kemp@otago.ac.nz

Past Co-Chair
Prof. Hannes Stockinger

Professor of Molecular Immunology.
Head Institute for Hygiene and Applied
Immunology, Head Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology
Medical University of Vienna Kinderspitalgasse 15, A-1090 Vienna, Austria

Tel. +43-1-40160 33001
E-mail: hannes.stockinger@meduniwien.ac.at

Members

Vanessa Bryant, Ph.D.

Laboratory Head, Immunology Division
Sir Clive McPherson Family Centenary Fellow
Royal Melbourne Hospital DW Keir Fellow

Immunology Flagship, Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance
Genetic Immunology Flagship, Australian Genomics Health Alliance
IUIS Gender Equity Committee
Walter + Eliza Hall Institute
1G Royal Parade
Parkville, Victoria 3052

Tel +61 3 9345 2460
Mobile +61 417 483 728
E-mail: bryant.v@wehi.edu.au

Rita Carsetti, MD

Immunology Research Area
B-cell development Unit
Immunological Diagnosis Unit
Bambino Gesù Children Hospital
Piazza S. Onofrio 4
00165, Rome, Italy

Tel +39 06 68592647
E-mail: rita.carsetti@opbg.net

Günnur Deniz, Ph.D.

Director of Aziz Sancar Institute of Experimental
Medicine (Aziz Sancar DETAE).
Head of Department of Immunology.
Istanbul University,
Vakif guraba cad. Sehremini,
Istanbul, Turkey

Tel. + 90 542 425 86 36
Fax + 90 212 532 41 71
E-mail: gdeniz@istanbul.edu.tr

Jeffrey Frelinger, Ph.D.

Professor
Department of Immunobiology
University of Arizona,
1656 E. Mabel St.
Po Box 245221
Tuscon AZ 85724

E-mail:  jfrelin@email.arizona.edu

Olivera J. Finn, Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor
Department of Immunology
Univ Pittsburgh Sch Med
E1044 Biomed Sci Tower
15261-0001 Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Tel. +1 412 648 9816
Fax: +1 412 648 7042
E-mail: ojfinn@pitt.edu

Narinder Kumar Mehra

National Chair & Former Dean (Res)
Department of Transplant Immunology
& Immunogenetics
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, 
Ansari Nagar
New Delhi 110 029, India

Tel. +91 9899087445
Fax +91 11 2658 8663
E-mail: narin.mehra@gmail.com