Gabor Geza Kovacs#

Present and Previous Positions

• May 2019 Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto; Consultant Neuropathologist, Laboratory Medicine Program, University Health Network; Principal Investigator, UofT Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Disease (CRND), Krembil Brain Institute
• Oct 2011/May 2019 Leader of the Austria Prion Disease Reference Center, Vienna, Austria
• Aug 2007/May 2019 Consultant and Senior Lecturer in Neuropathology, Inst. of Neurology, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
• May 2016/September 2016 Visiting Scholar, Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, University of Pennsylvania, Phil. USA
• April 2007/July 2007 Visiting Prof., Indiana Alzheimer Disease Center, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, USA
• Oct 2004/currently Consultant leader of the Hungarian Prion Disease Reference Center, Hungary
• Jan 2003/Aug 2007 Head of Department, National Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Dept. of Neuropathology, Hungary
• Juni 2000/Juni 2002 Resident in Neuropathology, Institute of Neurology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
• Oct 1994/Dec 2002 Clinical doctor in the Department of Neurology, Semmelweis University of Medicine, Budapest, Hungary

• Selective vulnerability
• Prion diseases
• Electron microscopy
• Brain ageing and development
• Pathogenesis
• Genotype/phenotype correlations
• Immunohistochemistry
• Body-fluid biomarkers
• Morphology
• Neuroglia in neurodegenerative conditions
• Neurodegenerative diseases
• Neuropathology

• 2002 Gedeon Richter Prize (Budapest, Hungary)
• 2007 Erste Bank Prize (Vienna, Austria)
• 2009 Cavanagh Award (British Neuropathological Society; UK)
• 2018 Karl-Golser Award (Südtirol, Italy)

Curriculum Vitae

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