Modulation of human antigen-specific T-cell response [Elektronische Ressource] : therapeutic implications for multiple sclerosis / von Sonia Waiczies

Aus dem Institut für Neuroimmunologie der Medizinischen Fakultät Charité der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin DISSERTATION Modulation of human antigen-specific T cell response – therapeutic implications for multiple sclerosis Zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades Doctor rerum medicarum (Dr. rer. medic.) vorgelegt der Medizinischen Fakultät Charité der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin von Sonia Waiczies B.Pharm(Hons.) M.Phil aus Paola, MALTA Dekan: Prof. Dr. Joachim W. Dudenhausen Gutachter: 1. Prof. Dr. Frauke Zipp, Humboldt Universität, Berlin 2. Prof. Dr. Norbert Sommer, Philipps Universität, Marburg 3Prof. Dr. Oliver Liesenfeld, Freie Universität, Berlin Datum der Promotion: 22. September 2003 No scientist is admired for failing in the attempt to solve problems that lie beyond his competence. The most he can hope for is the kindly contempt earned by the Utopian politician. If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs. P B Medawar, The Art of the Soluble (1967) Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 1960 for the discovery of acquired immunological tolerance (Medawar, 1999).