Cezmi Akdis


Cezmi Akdis is a medical researcher in the field of immunology. He is director of the Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research in Davos, Switzerland and the editor in chief of the journal Allergy.
He has been an Ordinarius 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 500 articles. His current h-index is 112. and 52,419 citations. He has also been selected to the ISI Web of Science and has received the Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher in the field of immunology in 2017, 2018, and 2019.

Academic history