László Vigh#


László Vigh
Membership Number:3629
Membership type:ORDINARY
Section:BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Elected:2013
Main Country of Residence:HUNGARY
Homepage(s):http://www.brc.hu/personal_page.php?id=bk_v%C3%ADl%C3%A1







Present and Previous Positions

  • 2008 Deputy Director General of the BRC for strategic matters
  • 2001-2004 Deputy Director General of the BRC for innovation and since
  • 1994-2003 Director of the Institute of Biochemistry of the BRC
  • 1991 Doctor of Biological Sciences
  • 1986 Leading of the Molecular Stress Biology Group, BRC
  • 1975 Teaching Assistant of the Institute of Biochemistry of the Biological Research Centre (BRC) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Fields of Scholarship
  • Defense mechanisms against biotic and abiotic stresses
  • Biological role of lipid unsaturation
  • Membrane dependent transcriptional regulation of “stress defending genes”
  • Structure, function and molecular organization of stress proteins and molecular chaperones
  • Membrane and lipid biochemistry and biophysics
  • Lipids in membrane function and signal transduction
  • Lipidomics.
  • Biochemistry, biophysics and physiology of thermal acclimation and temperature stress responses

Honours and Awards
  • 1983 Award for Young Inventors of the National Committee for Technological Development
  • 1983-85 British Council - Hungarian Academy of Sciences Joint Fund Grant
  • 1989-91 NSF - Hungarian Academy of Sciences Joint Fund Grant
  • 1992 Fellowship of Yamada Science Foundation
  • 1998 State Prize (“Széchenyi Award”) for Science (Hungary)
  • 2004 Corresponding Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  • 2005 Honorary Professor, University of Szeged
  • 2008 EU Project LipidomicNet (HEALTH-F4-2008-202272)
  • 2010 Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  • 2012 Gabor Denes Award
  • 2013 Member of the Academia Europaea

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