Vizi E., Szilveszter

Brain researcher

Born in 1936, he graduated in medicine in 1961. He has been a clinical pharmacologist since 1980. He is a visiting professor at the psychiatry and anaesthesiology department of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and university professor at the Pharmacological and Pharmacotherapeutic Institute of Semmelweis University. He became an academic in 1985 and was elected president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) in May 2002. His main field of interest is brain research into the immune and nervous systems as well as the problems of neurochemical response transfer. He is married with two children

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