Dr. Pierre Cosson obtained a Ph.D in Dr. J. Davoust´s laboratory, where he was working on the “Mechanisms of formation of intracellular transport vesicles”.
1990 he joined as an EMBO a post-doctoral fellow the laboratory of Dr. R. Klausner’s laboratory at the National Institute of Health, Washington, USA working on the “Transmembrane determinants for assembly and intracellular transport”.
In 1992 he moved as a Member to the Basel Institute for Immunology (Basel, Switzerland) still working the « Mechanisms of membrane sorting in the secretory pathway ». 1997 he moved as a Group leader to the University of Geneva where he was appointed in 2007 Full professor working on « Phagocytosis and host-pathogen interactions”.
He has created and runs the new Bachelor of Biomedical Science. He also created the recombinant antibody project, which provides animal-free high-quality antibodies to the scientific community.
Most recently he opened the ABCD database listing all available recombinant antibodies (>10’000 entries) and created a new open-access scientific journal (Antibody Reports) dedicated to the characterization of recombinant antibodies.
