The internationally renowned reputation of the IRB offers young scientists an excellent environment for scientific career development. The activities of the IRB focus on human immunology using a variety of different state-of-the-art scientific and technical approaches, which allows young scientists to obtain a great insight in the matter. Undergraduate students from many countries have successfully completed their master at the IRB and have easily progressed. The IRB jointly with Swiss and international Universities provides the opportunity to graduate students to obtain a PhD degree with high recognition and offers young Postdocs the possibility to perform in depth scientific training. 

The research focused on immunology is shared by all collaborators of the IRB and ranges from cell biology to cellular immunology and vaccinology. To allow such diversity in immunology research, the IRB provides all necessary high end technical platforms. The available equipment at the IRB enables efficient local top-notch investigations and attracts international collaborations.