Zsuzsanna Izsvák#
| Membership Number: | 7506 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Affiliated section(s): | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.mdc-berlin.de/izsvak |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-2053-2384 |
| Publication Link: | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=izsvak |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2000 Group leader, Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine
- 2009 - 2011 Guest professor, Medical University Debrecen, Hungary
- 1997 - 1999 Postdoctoral fellow, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- 1994 - 1997 Postdoctoral fellow, University of Minnesota, USA
- 1991 - 1994 PhD student, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary / University of Minnesota, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Schizophrenia
- Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) / ageing
- Gene therapy / cancer therapy
- Non-coding genome - evolution
- Transposable elements
- Human stem cells
- Pre-eclampsia
- Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs)
- Non-viral / synthetic gene delivery vector
- Hormone-dependent breast cancer
Honours and Awards
- 1990 Doctoral fellowship, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 1996 EMBO long-term postdoctoral fellowship
- 2004 EURYI, European Young Investigator Award (European Research Council, ERC)
- 2009 SB100X Molecule of the Year, International Society for Molecular and Cell Biology and Biotechnology Protocols and Researches
- 2012 ERC Advanced, TransposoSTRESS (European Research Council, ERC), PI
- 2015 ERC Advanced, EvoGenMed, co-PI
- 2015 Best publication of the Year, 2015, German Stem Cell Network (GSCN)
- 2016 ERC Advanced, EvoGenMed, co-PI
- 2019 Foreign member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 2023 Dennis Gabor Gesellschaft, President
