Zoltan Nusser#
| Membership Number: | 2973 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2011 |
| Main Country of Residence: | HUNGARY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.nusserlab.hu |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2000 Head of the Laboratory of Cellular Neurophysiology at the Institute of Experimental Medicine, Budapest, Hungary
- 1998 - 2000 Wellcome Travelling Research Fellow in the lab. of Prof. I. Mody at the University of California, Los Angeles
- 1996 Visiting scientist at the Department of Pharmacology, University College London. Collaborators: Prof. S. G. Cull-Candy and Dr. M. Farrant
- 1995 - 1998 Postdoctoral scientist at the MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit, Oxford Supervisor: Prof. P. Somogyi
Fields of Scholarship
- Neuroscience
- Neurophysiology
- Neuroanatomy
- In vitro patch-clamp physiology
- Immunohistochemistry
- GABA and glutamate receptors
- Voltage-gated ion channels
Honours and Awards
- 2007 Winner of the Debiopharm Life Sciences Award from the Swiss Federal Inst. of Technology in Lausanne
- 2006 Winner of the FENS/Boehringer Award from the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
- 2006 Winner of an ‘Akadémiai Prize’ from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 2005 Winner of a European Young Investigator Award from the European Science Foundation
- 2004 Winner of the Ignaz L. Lieben Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 2002 ‘Talentum Prize’ from the Central European Talent Support Foundation
- 2001 Krieg Cortical Kudos Cortical Explorer Award of the Cajal Club, USA
- 2000 Boehringer Ingelheim Fond’s Research Award for Postdoctoral Fellows
- 2000 The Chancellors Award for Postdoctoral Research. An award for the best postdoctoral researcher at UCLA
- 1998 - 2000 Wellcome Prize Travelling Research Fellowship
- Glaxo-Wellcome Prize Award in 1996. A prize for the best Ph.D. thesis in the UK provided by the Brain Research Association of Britain
- 1993/94 and 1994/95 University of Oxford: Overseas Research Students Awards
