Jules Hoffmann, Balzan Prizewinner 2007 for Innate Immunity and Nobel Prize 2011 for Medicine and Physiology, delivered a Balzan Lecture on L'immunité innée des insectes à l'homme at the Università della Svizzera italiana in Lugano on 21 September, 2015. The event was organized by tha Balzan Foundation "Prize" in cooperation with the Università della Svizzera italiana.A lectio magistralis on the same subject in Italian, entitled L'immunità innata dagli insetti all'uomo, was held by Hoffmann in Milan on 7 September 2015, at the Sala Buzzati of the Fondazione Corriere dela Sera, concluding the Announcement of the Balzan Prizewinners 2015.