Marco Baggiolini (* August 1, 1936 in Bellinzona)[1] is a Swiss immunologist and biochemist known for the discovery and the analysis of the first chemokines (or chemotactic cytokines).
Some control cells of the immune system, some promote the growth of new blood vessels, some cause inflammation in response to bacterial infection and viruses, for example, to activate cells to initiate an immune response or promote wound healing.
Baggiolini's lab has produced highly cited publications on this topic.
[1] In 1983, he was appointed as director of the Theodor Kocher Institute at the University of Bern, where he inaugurated a new research program on inflammation.
He was also co-director of the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre at ETH Zurich (CSCS).