Transzlációs Medicina Központ – Lecture Series
Előadó: Dr. Ole Holger Petersen, Professor of University of Cardiff
Cím: Science, Scientific Publishing and Scientific Advice for Policy: 50 years of personal experiences
Időpont: December 9, 2021. 10:00
Hely: NET, Díszterem (1089 Budapest, Nagyvárad tér 4.)
Petersen professzor szakmai pályája:
Dr. Ole Holger Petersen is the professor ok University Cardiff, UK. During his research he revealed the mechanisms by which secretion from exocrine glands are controlled. He pioneered single channel current recording in epithelial cells, characterizing several types of calcium-activated ion channels important for fluid secretion. He discovered hormone-evoked local calcium signals and showed that they controlled both fluid and enzyme secretion. More recently, he has discovered how certain alcohol metabolites evoke excessive calcium release from intracellular stores, thereby initiating pancreatitis, a human disease in which the pancreas digests itself and its surroundings. He has defined the intracellular receptor mechanisms responsible for alcohol-related pancreatitis and shown how they can be blocked.
He was the very first in the world to use the patch clamp technique on epithelial cells.
Notably, his research decisively accelerated the spread of the patch clamp technique, for which Erwin Neher and Bert Sakmann were awarded the Nobel Prize in 1993.
He is currently the Vice-President and Member of Executive Board, Academia Europaea, Academic Director, Academia Europaea Cardiff Knowledge Hub, Academia Europaea and Board Member, Science Advice for Policy by European Academies (SAPEA).
By Queen Elizabeth II, he is an Appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for ‘Services to Science’. He was elected to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2010, the Walter B. Cannon Award of the American Physiological Society in 2018 and the Academia Europaea’s Gold Medal in 2020.
Tisztelettel,
Dr. Hegyi Péter