Daniela Latorre

Institute of Experimental Neurology- INSPE
Division of Neuroscience
IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital
Milan | Italy

Dr. Daniela Latorre is an immunologist at San Raffaele Scientific Institute in Milan. She earned her PhD in Immunology from the “Sapienza” University of Rome and completed her postdoctoral training in Prof. Federica Sallusto’s lab, first at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) in Bellinzona, then at ETH Zurich.

Since 2019, she has received several competitive grants, including the prestigious PRIMA Starting Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation, which enabled her to establish and lead the Human Neuroimmunology group at ETH Zurich. In 2025, Dr. Latorre returned to Italy to head a new research group at San Raffaele Scientific Institute, supported by major national and international grants such as the Armenise Harvard Career Development Award, the ERC Consolidator Grant, and the Italian Consolidator Grant. Her research primarily focuses on human immunology, with a main interest in T cell immunity in the context of immune-mediated neurological diseases and microbial infections. Her postdoctoral work provided the first solid evidence of the autoimmune basis of narcolepsy, a sleep related disorder of the brain (Nature, 2018), and a more recent study from her group shed light on Guillain-Barré syndrome (Nature, 2024), offering new important insights into the disease immune mechanisms and paving the way for the potential development of more targeted and effective therapies.

Dr. Latorre has received several honors, including the prestigious Pfizer Research Prize (2020), the EU-NN Young Scientist Award (2019), and the AIN Award for Best International Young Researcher on Narcolepsy (2018). It is worth noting that her profile has gained recognition not only as a scientist but also as a mentor for the younger generation of researchers. She was the founder and elected president (until February 2023) of the Swiss Young Immunologists Society (SYIS), an initiative that actively promoted networking, scientific exchange, and the visibility of young researchers in the field of immunology in Switzerland and Europe. In addition, she is highly engaged in serving as a guest panelist at career workshops, a mentor in various postdoctoral mentorship programs, and a contributor to science outreach activities.