Dr. Miklós Kellermayer

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Miklós Kellermayer is the head of the Theoretical and Translational Medicine Doctoral School and chairman of the Department of Biophysics and Radiation Biology at Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary. He obtained his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Pécs, Hungary in 1988 and 1998, respectively. He received his D.Sc. degree in 2007 from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He became full professor in 2008 at Semmelweis University. He has had several years of international research experience in the fields of muscle physiology and single-molecule biophysics at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington State University in Pullman and the University of California in Berkeley. He currently focuses on biomolecular mechanics, cytoskeletal and viral nanobiology, protein folding and in vivo imaging. He supervises the Georg von Békésy Biophysics Research Center at Semmelweis University that houses state-of-the-art instrumentation that allows imaging and manipulation from single molecules to small-animal organisms. He served as vice rector of Semmelweis Universsity (2009-2012), and vice dean (2013-2015) and dean (2019-2024) of the Faculty of Medicine. He is a Howard Hughes Medical School International Alumnus, member of the Academia Europaea, president of the Hungarian Biophysical Society and has authored more than 140 original research papers that received citations exceeding 6500; his H-index is 39 (Google Scholar).

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