Miklós Palkovits#
| Membership Number: | 1316 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 1993 |
| Main Country of Residence: | HUNGARY |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-0578-0387 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Professor Emeritus, Semmelweis University, Budapest
- Research Professsor, Neuromorphological and Neuroendocrine Research Laboratory
- Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Semmelweis University, Budapest
- Head: Human Brain Tissue Bank, Budapest
- Dept. of Anatomy, Semmelweis Univ. Med. School, Budapest
- 2003 Professor Emeritus, Research Professor at the Laboratory of Neuromorphology
- Experimental Medical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
- 1980 Professor, Head of the Laboratory of Neuromorphology
- 1980-1985 Scientific Adviser
- 1972 Associate Professor
- 1963-1980 Research Associate, Chief of the Laboratory of Neuroanatomy
- 1960 Lecturer
- 1958 Assistant Professor
- 1955 Research Assistant
Fields of Scholarship
- Neuroanatomy
- Neuropeptides
- Neuroendocrinology
- Stress
- Neuronal pathways
- Chemical neuroanatomy
- Central autonomic regulatory mechanisms: pain, thermoregulation, cardiovascular, food intake
- Neurotransmitters
Honours and Awards
- Hungarian Academy Award, 1976
- Széchenyi Award (the highest scientific award in Hungary), 1991
- Rinecker Award and Gold Medal (Germany), 1993
- Albert Szent-Györgyi Award, 1995
- Semmelweis Award and Medal, 1997
- Harris Memorial Lecture, 1998
- Hans Selye Memorial Lecture, 1998
- Markusovszky Award, 2001
- Hemingway-Szabó Award, 2001
- Order of the Hungarian Republic, 2003
- National Institutes of Health Performance Award, 2004
- Ipolyi Arnold Award, 2005
- Leo Szilárd Award, 2006
