Previous Fora / 2003
Speakers
CURRICULUM VITAE
M.D., Ph.D., D.Sci., M.HAS., President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences,
Member of Academia Europaea,
Member of the Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea
Member, Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine
Honorary Member of The Czech Learned Society
Date of Birth: December 31, 1936
Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary
Citizenship: Hungarian
Present Positions:
President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2002-)
President of the Society for Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge (2000- )
Professor, Institute of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy, Semmelweis University, Budapest
Visiting Professor of Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiology, Albert Einstein
College of Medicine, Yeshiva University, Bronx, N. Y.
Recipient of Széchenyi-Award (1993).
His interest in the pharmacology and physiology of transmitter release and its presynaptic modulation was stimulated by his association with Sir William Paton in Oxford where he had worked as a Riker fellow in 1967-69. He has authored over 260 papers and published several books (e.g. Vizi, E.S. Non-synaptic Interactions Between Neurons: Modulation of Neurochemical Transmission. Pharmacological and Clinical Aspects. John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, New York, (1984); Vizi, E.S. (Ed.) Science in the Future of Europe. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest (1994)). He spent 6 months in Mainz (Dept. of Pharmacology) and 3 months in Parma (Dept. of Pharmacology). He has pioneered the presynaptic inhibition of transmitter release and the concept of non-synaptic "cross-talk" between neurons. His original paper of this topic became "Citation Classic" in 1991., collecting over 800 citations.
His work has been published international journals of high impact: J. Physiol (Lond), Neuroscience, Eur. J. Pharmacol. Br. J. Pharmacol., J. Pharmacol. Exp-Ther., J. Neuroscience etc. Until now his publications received more than 8000 citations.
Editor-in-chief of Neurochemistry International (Elsevier)
Section Editor of Brain Research Bulletin (Elsevier)