András Varró - Biography#

Andras Varro graduated from the Szeged Medical University (Hungary) with an M.D. degree in 1978. He obtained his PhD degree in 1987. In 1998 he received the D.Sc. degree from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Between 1978 and 1990 he worked at the Institute for Drug Research in Budapest. Between 1991 and 2001 he was working at the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy at the University of Szeged, Hungary with professor Julius Gy. Papp and he succeeded him as chairman of the department in 2001. He served as vice rector of the University of Szeged between 2011-2014 supervising science and innovation. During his career, he spent 5 years in the USA, at the Kranner Institute of Cardiology, Indiana University with Prof. Surawicz, at the Department of Pharmacology and Cell Biophysics, University of Cincinnati, Ohio with professors Arnold Schwartz and David Lathtrop. He also spent more than 1 year (1991-1992) in the United Kingdom at the Department of Veterinary Preclinical Sciences, University of Liverpool, with professor David Eisner. His major research interests include physiology and pharmacology of cardiac potassium channels, cellular mechanisms of arrhythmias, antiarrhythmic and proarrhythmic drug actions.

He participated in 3 EU-FP 6 or 7 grants, and obtained continuous fundings from Hungarian National fundings agencies (OTKA, NKHT etc). He supervised more than 10 successful PhD studients and 5 habilitations. He organized several international scientific meetings one with 9 Nobel Laurates participations.

Between 1998 and 2002 he served as an editor for the British Journal of Pharmacology and since 2013 he is editor of Cardiovascular Research and since 2017 J Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. He published more than 300 full length papers and 9 book chapters in English language which earned more than 8500 independent citations and resulted H index= 54. He was also involved in the development of several new cardioactive drugs which resulted 8 patent applications.

List of publications: https://m2.mtmt.hu/gui2/?type=authors&mode=browse&sel=10001232&view=simpleList