What immune cells reveal about sleep disorders
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- Daniela Latorre conducts research at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine. (Photograph: Stefan Weiss / ETH Zurich)
Daniela Latorre wanted to be a scientist since she was a child. At the Institute for Research in Biomedicine, affiliated to the USI in Bellinzona and the Institute of Microbiology, she is finding evidence that narcolepsy is an autoimmune disease. She has now received the Pfizer Prize for Research 2020 for her pioneering work.
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