Zsolt Liposits (born 22 October 1951) is a Hungarian physician,

neuroscientist A neuroscientist (or neurobiologist) is a scientist specializing in neuroscience that deals with the anatomy and function of neurons, Biological neural network, neural circuits, and glia, and their Behavior, behavioral, biological, and psycholo ...

and university professor.

Career

In 1976, he received MD degree from University Medical School Pécs and was appointed Lecturer in Anatomy. He was invited by

Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical University Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical University was originally established in Kolozsvár, then in Austria-Hungary, later Romania, in 1872. After World War I, it was moved to Szeged. Since 1921 great advances have been made in the development of the Univ ...

and was appointed chairman of the Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology,

Szeged Szeged ( , ; see also #Etymology, other alternative names) is List of cities and towns of Hungary#Largest cities in Hungary, the third largest city of Hungary, the largest city and regional centre of the Southern Great Plain and the county seat ...

, Hungary in 1993. In 1998, he joined the Institute of Experimental Medicine of the

Hungarian Academy of Sciences The Hungarian Academy of Sciences ( , MTA) is Hungary’s foremost and most prestigious learned society. Its headquarters are located along the banks of the Danube in Budapest, between Széchenyi rakpart and Akadémia utca. The Academy's primar ...

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and established the Department of Endocrine Neurobiology. He was appointed Professor at

Pázmány Péter Catholic University Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPKE) ( (''PPKE'')) is a private university in and near Budapest, Hungary, belonging to the Catholic Church in Hungary, Catholic Church and recognized by the state. While PPKE takes its name after an insti ...

, Faculty of Information Technology and Bionics in 2002. He has also worked as visiting scientist at the

University of Missouri-Columbia The University of Missouri (Mizzou or MU) is a public land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri, United States. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus University of Missouri System. Founded in 1839, M ...

, Columbia, MO, USA, the National Institute of Environmental Heath Sciences, (NIEHS), Research Triangle Park, NC, USA and Nagoya, City University, Nagoya, Japan. From 2008 until 2017, he was Head of the Hungarian Section of the International Neuroendocrine Federation (INF).

Scientific achievements

He has been studying cellular and molecular mechanisms whereby the

hypothalamus The hypothalamus (: hypothalami; ) is a small part of the vertebrate brain that contains a number of nucleus (neuroanatomy), nuclei with a variety of functions. One of the most important functions is to link the nervous system to the endocrin ...

regulates centrally the physiological events of

reproduction Reproduction (or procreation or breeding) is the biological process by which new individual organisms – "offspring" – are produced from their "parent" or parents. There are two forms of reproduction: Asexual reproduction, asexual and Sexual ...

stress Stress may refer to: Science and medicine * Stress (biology), an organism's response to a stressor such as an environmental condition * Stress (linguistics), relative emphasis or prominence given to a syllable in a word, or to a word in a phra ...

and

metabolism Metabolism (, from ''metabolē'', "change") is the set of life-sustaining chemical reactions in organisms. The three main functions of metabolism are: the conversion of the energy in food to energy available to run cellular processes; the co ...

. He elaborated immune electron microscopic techniques for studying the synaptic regulation of

hypothalamic The hypothalamus (: hypothalami; ) is a small part of the vertebrate brain that contains a number of nuclei with a variety of functions. One of the most important functions is to link the nervous system to the endocrine system via the pituit ...

neurosecretory systems and elucidated molecular mechanisms of

estrogen Estrogen (also spelled oestrogen in British English; see spelling differences) is a category of sex hormone responsible for the development and regulation of the female reproductive system and secondary sex characteristics. There are three ...

signalling via

nuclear receptor In the field of molecular biology, nuclear receptors are a class of proteins responsible for sensing steroids, thyroid hormones, vitamins, and certain other molecules. These intracellular receptors work with other proteins to regulate the ex ...

s in the brain. For more information about his current research team, please, visit the webpage o
Laboratory of Endocrine Neurobiology
His scientific publications are over 180, Hirsch-index is 61. Till date, his scientific results received more than 11 000 citations.

Scientific publications

His scientific papers are listed in various data bases.

Honours and awards

* 2010 Pázmány Plaquette * 2008 Academy Award * 2005 Charles Simonyi Research Award * 1997 Széchenyi Professorship

References

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