{"id":2622,"date":"2012-07-04T08:21:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T08:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.semmelweis-univ.hu\/?page_id=2622"},"modified":"2025-07-19T09:11:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:11:24","slug":"vice-rector-for-science-and-innovation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/about-semmelweis-university\/leaders-of-the-university\/vice-rector-for-science-and-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Vice-Rector for Science and Innovations"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/RS95874_IMG_9934-scr-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/RS95874_IMG_9934-scr-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><strong>Dr. P\u00e9ter Ferdinandy, MD, PhD, MBA<br \/>\n<\/strong>Vice-Rector<\/h4>\n<h5>Date and place of birth<\/h5>\n<p>1966, B\u00e9k\u00e9scsaba, Hungary<\/p>\n<h5>Current positions<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: square\">\n<li>since 2018: Vice-Rector for Science and Innovations, Semmelweis University<\/li>\n<li>since 2011: Professor &amp; Director, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.semmelweispharma.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy<\/a>, Faculty of Medicine, Semmelweis University<\/li>\n<li>since 2001: Founder and CEO of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pharmahungary.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pharmahungary<\/a> Group,\u00a0\u00a0Szeged, Hungary (spin-off companies)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Education and scientific degrees<\/h5>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: square\">\n<li>2004: DSc in medical sciences,\u00a0Hungarian Academy of Sciences<\/li>\n<li>2000-2004: MBA (Masters of Business Administration, Finance and Quality management), Budapest Technical University, Hungary<\/li>\n<li>1999: Designation as registered Clinical-Pharmacologist<\/li>\n<li>1997-1999: Postdoctoral training, Dept Pharmacology,\u00a0University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada1995 December\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>1991-1995: PhD training, Departments of Physiology and Biochemistry,\u00a0University of Szeged, Hungary<\/li>\n<li>1991: MD diploma (score: excellent, \u201csumma cum laude\u201d)<\/li>\n<li>1985-1991: University of Szeged, Hungary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Teaching experience<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: square\">\n<li>since 2004: Lecturer in Pharmacology, Semmelweis University, Budapest<\/li>\n<li>since 1993: Lecturer in Biochemistry, University of Szeged, Hungary<\/li>\n<li>1998-1999: Lecturer in Pharmacology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada<\/li>\n<li>1991-1994: Lecturer in Physiology, University of Szeged, Hungary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Scholarships, fellowships<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: square\">\n<li>1989-1991: Scholarship of Hungarian Republic<\/li>\n<li>1997-1999: Postdoc Fellow, MRC Canada, University of Alberta, Canada<\/li>\n<li>2001-2005: Szechenyi professorship, Hungarian Academy of Sciences<\/li>\n<li>2013-2014: Szentagothai professorship, National Excellence Program<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Major awards<\/h5>\n<p>First prize, Young Investigator Award 1999, International Society for Heart Research<\/p>\n<h5>Major leadership positions at international scientific organizations<\/h5>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: square\">\n<li>2012-2014: President, International Society for Heart Research, European Section<\/li>\n<li>2014-2016: Chairman, Working Group Cell Biology of the Heart, European Cardiology Society<\/li>\n<li>2019-2023: President, Hungarian Society of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Editorial board memberships<\/h5>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: square\">\n<li>Editor-in-Chief: British Journal of Pharmacology, since 2023<\/li>\n<li class=\"Default\">Br J Pharmacol (Reviews Editor, Guest Editor, impact factor 4.9)<\/li>\n<li>J Mol Cell Cardiol (Editor, impact factor 5.1)<\/li>\n<li>Basic Res Cardiol (Editor, impact factor 5.9)<\/li>\n<li>J Pharmacol Tox Methods (Editor, impact factor 2.2)<\/li>\n<li>Vascular Pharmacology (Editor, impact factor 3.7)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Languages<\/h5>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: square\">\n<li>Native language:\u00a0Hungarian<\/li>\n<li>English (fluent)<\/li>\n<li>German (basic understanding)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Scientometric data<\/h5>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: square\">\n<li>Number of papers in international peer-reviewed journals: over 350 (source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/?term=ferdinandy+p\">PubMed<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Cumulative impact factor of full papers: over 1600<\/li>\n<li>Total number of citations: over 26,000, independent: 14,000 (Hungarian Science Bibliography), publications cited over 100 times: 64 (source: <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.hu\/citations?user=vTIepJIAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Scholar<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Hirsch index: 69 (source: <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.hu\/citations?user=vTIepJIAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\">Google Scholar<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Patent families: 6, software developments: 3 on the market<\/li>\n<li>Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Cross-Field: 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024<\/li>\n<li>Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Pharmacology and Toxicology: 2014, 2017<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/RS95874_IMG_9934-scr-1.jpg\"><\/a> Dr. P\u00e9ter Ferdinandy, MD, PhD, MBA Vice-Rector Date and place of birth 1966, B\u00e9k\u00e9scsaba, Hungary Current positions since 2018: Vice-Rector for Science and Innovations, Semmelweis University since 2011: Professor &amp; Director, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.semmelweispharma.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy<\/a> , Faculty of Medicine, Semmelweis University since 2001: Founder and CEO of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pharmahungary.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pharmahungary<\/a> Group,\u00a0\u00a0Szeged, Hungary (spin-off companies) Education and scientific degrees 2004: DSc in medical &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":0,"parent":72,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2622","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2622"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45419,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2622\/revisions\/45419"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}