Professional Experience

2011 - present, Associate Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, CA

2006 - 2011, Assistant Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Beckman Research Institute of  the City the of Hope, Duarte, CA

2002 - 2006, Associate Research Scientist, Department of Biology, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, CA

1997 - 2002, Assistant Research Scientist, Department of Biology, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, CA

1992 - 1997, Postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Jeffrey R. Mann's laboratory in the Department of Biology, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, CA

Education and Training

1992, Attila József University, Szeged, Hungary, Ph.D., Molecular Biology

1988, Attila József University, Szeged, Hungary, M.S., Biology

This is an abbreviated document. Full CV available upon request. Information on this page may be self-reported and is subject to change at any time. Last updated: 9/12

Honors and Awards

2011 and 2007, City of Hope Excellence Award

1995, Qualitas Biologica Award, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

1991 - 1992, Two short term fellowships of the Italian Academy of Sciences to visit Prof. Ranieri Cancedda’s laboratory in Genova, Italy

1991, FEBS short-term fellowship, visiting Iain Mattaj’s laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany

1990, Best Young Investigator’s Award BRC, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

1990, EMBO fellowship, EMBO Summer School on Developmental Biology, West-Berlin, Germany

1989 - 1992, Ph.D. fellowship, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

1989, Hungarian National Scientific Conference for University Students, 1st award in Genetics