Prof Tibor Hortobágyi

Prof Tibor Hortobágyi
Tibor Hortobágyi is an academic neuropathologist, head of department and chair at the University of Debrecen, Hungary. His clinical work covers almost the full spectrum of diagnostic neuropathology. His research group, supported by the National Brain Research Program, runs projects in the fields of neurodegeneration, stroke, brain tumours with focus on clinico-pathological correlations and signal transduction pathway analysis. Previously he has worked for 10 years at King’s College & King’s College Hospital in London and was a PI on neurodegenerative research projects in Chris Shaw’s team; he is currently visiting senior lecturer at the Department of Clinical and Basic Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London. He is fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists. Between 1998 and 2001 he was research fellow at the Department of Physiology, Ludwig Maximillians University Munich, and worked on experimental models a focal brain injury. He was a visiting fellow with a scholarship at the Clinical Institute of Neurology, University of Vienna, in 2002. He received PhD at the Semmelweis University Budapest based on experimental studies on vascular and parenchymal factors in secondary brain injury in trauma and stroke models. He graduated and specialized in pathology at the University of Szeged, Hungary. Tibor Hortobágyi is author on more than 100 full research papers, including in Science, Nature Neuroscience, Genome Research, and wrote several book chapters. He is editorial board member of numerous medical journals including Acta Neuropathologica, Frontiers in Neurodegeneration, American Journal of Neurodegenerative Disease. He is devoted to neuropathology teaching and has been panel of examiners member at The Royal College of Pathologists and Euro-CNS., Hungary