Beáta Sperlágh#
| Membership Number: | 4323 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | HUNGARY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.sperlaghlab.hu |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012 - present Head of Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary (IEM HAS)
- 2009 - present Professor of Pharmacology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
- 2004 - present Scientific advisor, IEM HAS
- 2002 - present Deputy director, IEM HAS
- 2002 - present, Head of Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology, IEM HAS
- 1995 - 2002 Associate research fellow, Department of Pharmacology, IEM HAS
- 1995 - 2002 Head of Neurochemical Research Group, Department of Pharmacology, IEM HAS
- 1998 - 2001 Deputy head of Department of Pharmacology, IEM HAS
- 1991, 1992, 1996: visiting researcher in the Center of Neurochemistry in Orangeburg, New York, USA
- 1988 - 1994 Assistant research fellow in the Department of Pharmacology, IEM HAS
Fields of Scholarship
- Neurodegeneration and neuroinflammation
- Cannabinergic signalling in the central nervous system
- Identification and validation of new drug targets, drug development
- Pharmacology of pain, neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders
- Purinergic signalling in the central nervous system
- Neuropharmacology and molecular neuroscience
- Glia-neuron cross talk
Honours and Awards
- 2016 Academy Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 2012 Co-PI of ERC Advanced Investigator Grant
- 2010 Dénes Gábor Award
- 2009 Research Award of the Pfizer Inc.
- 2007 Charles Simonyi Research Award
- 2005 L’Oreal-UNESCO Scientific award for Women in Science
- 2000 Széchenyi Professorship fellow
- 1998 Research Award of the TEVA-BIOGAL Pharmaceutical Company
- 1998 Research Award of SIGMA Chemical Co.
- 1993 Academy Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for Young Scientists
- 1995 First prize of the Hungarian Society of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology for Young Scientists
- 1992 IBRO-McArthur Fellowship
