Csaba Szabó#
| Membership Number: | 7192 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Affiliated section(s): | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.unifr.ch/med/en/research/group/szabo/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-1580-6344 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/csaba-szabo-b26b9664/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2024 - present Director, Department of Oncology, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- 2018 - present Full Professor & Chair, Section of Pharmacology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- 2008 - 2018 Professor and Laura B. McDaniel Chair, Department of Anesthesiology and Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX
- 1999 - 2008 Professor, Department of Surgery, UMDNJ, Newark, NJ
- 1994 - 1999 Assistant/Associate Professor, Division of Crit. Care, Children's Hosp. Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH & Dept. of Pharmacology, University of Cincinnati
- 1992 - 1994 Research Scientist, The William Harvey Research Institute, London, UK
Fields of Scholarship
- Inflammation
- Gaseous transmitters
- Circulatory shock
- Oxidative stress
- Neurodegeneration
- Cancer
- Hydrogen sulfide
- Nitric oxide
- Cell death
- Poly(ADP ribose) polymerase
- Cardiovascular disease
Honours and Awards
- 2021 John Vane Medal (British Pharmacological Society)
- 2021 Honoris Causa, University of Athens, Greece
- 2019 FEBS-IUBMB Keynote Lecture
- 2016 ASPET-Pharmacia Award for Experimental Therapeutics (American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics)
- 2016 Du Vigneaud Keynote Lecture (Cornell University, New York)
- 2014 Elected Member of the ASCI (American Society for Clinical Investigation)
- 2012 F.B.P.S. - Elected Fellow or the British Pharmacological Society (London, UK)
- 2009 Texas Star Award - University of Texas System (Austin, TX)
- 2006 Officer's Cross - Order of Merit Award of the Hungarian Republic (Budapest, Hungary)
- 2004 Dennis Gabor Innovation Award (Budapest, Hungary)
- 2003 Novartis Prize of the British Pharmacological Society (London, UK)
