Mária Deli and Csaba Pál were elected as corresponding members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

2022. máj. 6. | News

On May 3, 2022, the Assembly of Academicians elected the new Full, Corresponding and Honorary Members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences from 110 candidates, who were also presented at the subsequent 195th General Assembly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

The lists of candidates from the scientific departments are summarized by the Presidium and submitted to the Assembly of Academicians, which then arranges for the election of the academicians

This year, two BRC Szeged staff members, Mária Deli (scientific advisor of the Institute of Biophysics) and Csaba Pál (scientific advisor of the Institute of Biochemistry), were also elected as corresponding members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Mária Deli's research area focuses on the study of blood-brain barrier models and biological barriers. Her work has contributed to the development of chip devices suitable for the study of these barrier systems. Her research has revealed new possibilities for drug delivery in the brain. In a microfluidic model, it has been demonstrated that shear force from fluid flow increases the expression of genes involved in the formation of the glycocalyx layer of brain endothelial cells and barrier function, as well as the formation of a negative cell surface charge. During her career, she has been awarded the Academic Youth Award, the János Bolyai Research Fellowship, and the Straub Plaque, and 10 of her students have earned PhDs. She is a member of the editorial board of 9 journals and editor-in-chief of Frontiers in Drug Delivery. Secretary of the Committee on Neurobiology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Proposers:Lajos Alföldi, Éva Kondorosi, Lajos Keszthelyi, Ferenc Nagy, Pál Ormos, Pál Venetianer, László Vígh

Csaba Pál has achieved outstanding results in the fields of antibiotics research, evolution and systems biology. He is the head of a subprogram of the National Laboratory of Biotechnology and has two patents: a genomic engineering method (PCT / EP2017 / 082574) and new antibiotic candidates (PCT / EP2019 / 07341). He has published his scientific results in leading journals such as Nature, Science, PNAS and PLOS Biology. He has received the Ignaz L. Lieben Award, the Szent-Györgyi Talent Award, the János Bolyai Creative Award and the Academic Award (jointly). His main international grants are ERC Starting, ERC Consolidator and ERC Proof of Concept Grants. He is a member of the editorial board for Molecular Biology and Evolution, PLOS Biology and Biology Direct. He is a member of Academia Europaea, the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and the Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS).

Proposers:Réka Albert, Albert-László Barabási, Péter Csermely, László Nagy, Zoltán Nusser, Gábor Tamás, Sándor Pongor

Congratulations!

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