Pál Venetianer#
Membership Number: | 1232 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
Elected: | 1992 |
Main Country of Residence: | HUNGARY |
Homepage(s): | http://www.szbk.u-szeged.hu/directors_pal_venetianer.php |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2001 Emeritus Research Professor
- 1997 - 2000 Research professor, Biological Research Center, Szeged
- 1994 - 1996 Director General of the Biological Research Center, Szeged
- 1984 - 1993 Director, Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 1979 - 1983 Deputy Director, Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 1975 Doctor of Biological Sciences (D.Sc.)
- 1973 - 1974 Visiting Scientist, National Institutes of Health, NICHD, (head: P. Leder) Bethesda, USA
- 1971 - 1979 Senior Research Worker, Head of the Section on Nucleic Acid Research, Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Center, Szeged
- 1967 - 1970 Assistant Professor, Institute of Medical Chemistry, Semmelweis University Medical School, Budapest
- 1965 - 1966 Visiting Fellow, National Institutes of Health, NIAMD, (head: C.B. Anfinsen), Bethesda, USA
- 1965 Candidate of Biological Sciences (Ph.D.), Institute of Medical Chemistry (Prof. F.B. Straub), Semmelweis University Medical School, Budapest
- 1957 M.Sc. Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest, Faculty of Sciences
Fields of Scholarship
- Biochemistry
- Genetic engineering
- Molecular biology
Honours and Awards
- 1969 Imre Szörényi Prize of the Hungarian Biochemical Society
- 1976 Honorary Professor of Molecular Genetics, József Attila University, Szeged
- 1980 Ferdinand Springer Award of FEBS
- 1981 Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 1985 State Prize for Science (Hungary)
- 1987 Corresponding Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 1991 Member of EMBO
- 1992 Member of Academia Europea (London)
- 1995 Regular Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 1995 Member of the Leopoldina Academy of Sciences (Germany)
- 1997 Order of the Hungarian Republic, medium cross.
- 1998 Main prize of the “For Szeged” foundation
- 1999 Széchenyi professorship