E. Sylvester Vizi#
| Membership Number: | 1263 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 1992 |
| Main Country of Residence: | HUNGARY |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1981 Deputy director at the Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS)
- 1981 Chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Therapy at the Imre Haynal University of Health (Semmelweis University), Director of the institute (1989 - 2002)
- 1977 - 1981 Deputy chairman of the medical research council department at the Ministry of Health in Hungary
- 1976 Professor of pharmacology
- 1967 - 1969 Riker Fellow at the Department of Pharmacology of the University of Oxford
- 1965 Associate professor at the Department of Pharmacology, Semmelweis University
- 1961 Assistant professor, Semmelweis University
Fields of Scholarship
- Medicine
- Pharmacology
Honours and Awards
- 1985 Corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Full member 1990
- 1996 - 2002 Vice president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 2002 - 2008 President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 1977 Prize of Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 1977 Recipient of Issekutz Medal, Hungarian Pharmacological Society
- 1993 Issekutz Prize
- 1993 Széchenyi Award
- 1993 Markusovszky Medal
- 1995 Miklós Jancsó Award
- 1996 Knight of the Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem
- 1997 Antal Genersich Award
- 1997 Middle Cross of the Order of the Hungarian Republic
- 1998 Galileo Galilei Award
- 1998 Semmelweis Ignác Emlékérem,(Semmelweis Medical School)
- 1999 Doctor Honoris Causa Tirgu Mures (Romania)
- 2002 The Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold and Silver Star , Japan
- 2003 Pro Meritis Academiae Gold Medal (European Academy of Science and Arts)
- 2003 Foreign Member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
- 2003 Doctor Honoris Causa of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
- 2003 Prima Primisszima Prize
