Joseena Mariam Iype, PhD, is a scientist at the Clinical Cytomics Facility at Inselspital Bern. She did her PhD in Immunology at Max Planck Institute of Immunology and Epigenetics, Germany and postdoc at UKC. Her research focuses on the role of basophils in allergic asthma. She has experience in immunology and employing single cell-technologies (flow and mass cytometry) to address scientific questions in clinical diagnostics as well as in basic research. She coordinates the IMC Platform at Inselspital and University of Bern, and also work as a scientific consultant for multidisciplinary imaging and cell suspension-based mass cytometry projects.