Professor
SALUS LTD
Hungary
Balázs Sarkadi, MD, Ph.D., spent several years as a post-doc and then as a visiting scientist at major universities in the United States and Canada. He is research professor at Semmelweis University, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, past president of FEBS, ICRO, and ITTS, member of several international research societies including the Academia Europeae. He obtained numerous awards, including the Denis Gabor award for research application development. His research has been focusing on membrane proteins which play a major role in the multidrug resistance of cancer, in general pharmacology, and in stem cell function. His recent work is related to transporters in pluripotent stem cells and in stem-cell derived differentiated tissues and organoids, the application of organoids in drug development. He has published more than 320 papers in international scientific journals, with a citation number over 17,000 (in WoS, or 24,500 in Google Scholar) with an h-index of 71/75. He has several international patents already in commercial applications.