Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), Singapore Gennaro De Libero, M.D. Ph.D. is Professor of Immunology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel, Switzerland and Principal investigator responsible of the Tuberculosis Program at SIgN, A*STAR. He has been a long term Embo Fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology in Freiburg and member of the Basel Institute for Immunology. Focus of Prof. De Libero’s laboratory is the immune response against non-peptidic antigens. Main scientific interests are the recognition of mycobaterial lipids as antigens, the role of lipid-specific immunity in Tuberculosis and the development of novel anti-tuberculosis vaccines containing mycobacterial lipids. Other interests are the mechanisms of antigen presentation to human TCR gamma delta cells and to MR1-restricted T cells.