Cezmi Akdis


Cezmi Akdis is a medical researcher in the field of immunology. He is director of the Allergy and Asthma Research">Allergy (journal)">Allergy and Asthma Research in Davos, Switzerland and the editor in chief of the journal Allergy.
He has been a professor in University of Zürich Medical Faculty since 2006, and one of the directors of the Christine Kühne-Center for Allergy Research and Education in Davos, Switzerland.

Education

Akdis Received his medical degree from Uludag University Medical Faculty, Bursa, Turkey in 1985. He has specialized in infectious disease and clinical microbiology 1991 and in immunology at Uludag University in 1994, and further was named a Venia Legendi at the University of Zürich 2001.

Publications

Akdis has published more than 650 articles. His current h-index is 140. and he has received over 80,000 citations. He has also been selected to the ISI Web of Science and has received the Thomson Reuters (Clarivate) Highly Cited Researcher in the field of immunology in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021.

Academic history

Contributions

  • Immune regulation and allergen tolerance: Plasticity of antigen-specific T cells, 1996
  • Human T-regulatory cells, 1998
  • Immune suppressive role of histamine receptor 2, 2001
  • Epithelial barrier studies: Mechanisms of eczema, 2000
  • Human Type 2 NK cell subset, 2002
  • Mechanisms of epithelial shedding in asthma and chronic rhinosinusitis, 2003 & 2009
  • Human regulatory NK Cells, 2007
  • Endotypes of asthma, 2011
  • Chronic rhinosinusitis and atopic dermatitis, 2011
  • Epithelial barrier hypothesis for the development of allergic and autoimmune disease, 2000-2022
  • Regulatory Innate Lymphoid Cells, 2019

Honors