László Vigh#
| Membership Number: | 3629 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | HUNGARY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.brc.hu/personal_page.php?id=bk_v%C3%ADl%C3%A1 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2008 Deputy Director General of the BRC for strategic matters
- 2001-2004 Deputy Director General of the BRC for innovation and since
- 1994-2003 Director of the Institute of Biochemistry of the BRC
- 1991 Doctor of Biological Sciences
- 1986 Leading of the Molecular Stress Biology Group, BRC
- 1975 Teaching Assistant of the Institute of Biochemistry of the Biological Research Centre (BRC) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Fields of Scholarship
- Defense mechanisms against biotic and abiotic stresses
- Biological role of lipid unsaturation
- Membrane dependent transcriptional regulation of “stress defending genes”
- Structure, function and molecular organization of stress proteins and molecular chaperones
- Membrane and lipid biochemistry and biophysics
- Lipids in membrane function and signal transduction
- Lipidomics.
- Biochemistry, biophysics and physiology of thermal acclimation and temperature stress responses
Honours and Awards
- 1983 Award for Young Inventors of the National Committee for Technological Development
- 1983-85 British Council - Hungarian Academy of Sciences Joint Fund Grant
- 1989-91 NSF - Hungarian Academy of Sciences Joint Fund Grant
- 1992 Fellowship of Yamada Science Foundation
- 1998 State Prize (“Széchenyi Award”) for Science (Hungary)
- 2004 Corresponding Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 2005 Honorary Professor, University of Szeged
- 2008 EU Project LipidomicNet (HEALTH-F4-2008-202272)
- 2010 Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 2012 Gabor Denes Award
- 2013 Member of the Academia Europaea
