The Lautenberg Center for General and Tumor Immunology

The Lautenberg Center for General and Tumor Immunology

Founded in 1968 as a new Department of Immunology at the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School and subsequently accorded Center status, the Lautenberg Center has achieved international recognition as a major unit for research and instruction in immunological science.

What's New

Research Updates 2010-2011  (March 2012)

Research Highlights (January 2012)

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The Lautenberg Center's personnel comprises 60 workers including more than 30 faculty members, postdoctoral and research associates. Organized into several independent, but closely collaborating research units, the Center's staff is pursuing a multifaceted program of investigation in tumor immunology, transplantation immunology, and basic cellular and molecular immunology. More than 1000 scientific communications - articles reporting research findings, reviews, chapters in textbooks and in symposium publications, books, and abstracts of lectures presented at international scientific conventions - have been published by investigators conducting their studies in the Center's laboratories.

The Center offers formal courses of lecture and laboratory instruction in immunology, molecular biology, tumor biology and host-parasite relationship studies to medical, dentistry, and pharmacy students, and to undergraduate and graduate students in the natural sciences. Large numbers of graduate and medical students, including many from abroad, pursue dissertational research at the Center, and foreign scholars with advanced standing are frequent visitors for prolonged periods of joint investigational endeavors.

A variety of clinical services and consultation to hospitals in Israel is provided, especially through its affiliated Unit of Tissue typing. The Lautenberg Center is linked to Israel and international scientific and medical communities by an intensive, ongoing program of collaborative basic studies and by its active role in the planning and carrying out of clinical trials pertaining to the diagnosis and therapy of neoplastic, infectious and parasitic diseases.