Education: 1974          M.Sc. Biology and chemistry, Eötvös Loránd University,  (ELU)  Budapest, Hungary

1984          Ph.D., Hungarian Academy of Sciences(HAS)/ELU

1993    Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) HAS

1993    Dr. habil. – ELU

Academic positions/employment:

2015 -  Professor emerita, ELU

1993- 2015 Professor, Head of Department of Immunology, ELU

1989 -1993 Associate Professor, Department of Immunology, ELU

1987 -1989 Visiting Scientist at Basel Institute for Immunology, CH

1984 -1986 EMBO Research Fellow, Oxford University, UK

1980 -1984 Senior Lecturer, Department of Immunology, ELU

1974 -1980 Assistant Lecturer, Dept. of Immunology, ELU

1987-2007 (2-4 weeks/year) Visiting Scientist, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

1990-2003 (1-2 weeks/year) Visiting Scientist at University of Innsbruck, Austria

Research interest:

The instructive role of innate immunity; function of macrophages, dendritic cells and the complement system; their role in autoimmune disorders (RA, SLE);

Mechanism of allergic reactions – developing inhibitory peptides, peptido/mimetics

Study trips, invited professorships

Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany (1983, 3 months)

Open University, Milton Keynes, UK (1984, 3 months)

University of Oxford, UK, EMBO Fellowship (1985-87)

Basel Institute for Immunology (1988-2000)

Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany (1989, 3 months)

Publications

More than 200 in-extenso, peer-reviewed papers;

Editor - 1 book (CRC Press);

Co-author of a Chapter in Fundamental Immunology (Ed.W.Paul);

Co-editor and co-author of Immunobiology textbook (in Hungarian) (2 editions); Editor and co-author Immunology textbook (2012)

Editor and co-author of Practical immunology (in Hungarian)