FLORA SZERI, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator at Research Center for Natural Sciences, Budapest, Hungary with a Ph.D. from Semmelweis University. Former Postdoctoral Researcher and Fulbright Research Scholar at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA. Research interests in the pathogenesis of soft tissue calcification and the working mechanism of ABC transporters. Applying in vitro and in vivo techniques, such as Cell and Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, primary cell cultures, in vivo or ex vivo rodent models.
Research experience
Current positions
2018-2020
Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Post-doctoral Researcher
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2017-2018
Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Fulbright Research Scholar
2011-2016
Institute of Enzymology, RCNS, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Research Associate
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2002-2010
Institute of Enzymology, RCNS, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Young Research Fellow
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2016- present
Institute of Enzymology, RCNS, Hungarian Academy of Sciences/Eötvös Loránd Research Network, Hungary
Research Faculty, Principal Investigator
2004 - 2010
Faculty of Molecular Life Sciences, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
Summa cum laude Ph.D. in Molecular Life Sciences/Pathobiology
Education
2020- present
Department of Biochemistry, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
Visiting Scientist
1995-2001
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Institute of Biology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
MSc in Biology/Molecular Biology/Genetics
Selected presentations
2022 INTEC kick-off meeting, Ghent, Belgium
2021 COST (CA 16115) Angers, France, virtual
2021 Connective Tissue Calcifying Diseases in eastern Europe: Where are we? Iasi, Romania, virtual
2020 PXE Research Conference, Philadelphia, USA virtual
2020 FEBS ABC2020 Meeting, Innsbruck, Austria
2019 The complex pathophysiology of cardiovascular calcification, Antwerp, Belgium
2019 PXE Research Conference, Budapest, Hungary
2019 Rare is common: from rare calcification disorders to actionable insights, Weizmann Institute, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2018 Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis Faculté de Médecine, Nizza, France
2018 PXE Research Conference, Philadelphia, USA
Short-term internships
2018 Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis Faculté de Médecine, Nice, France
2016 Department of Dermatology, 
Angers University Hospital, Angers, France
2014 Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital/ Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2013 Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades Paris, France
Memberships in societies
2022- International Scientific Society of Ectopic Calcification (ISSEC), Working Group leader
2020- VascAgeNet COST Action (CA18216 ) | Network For Research In Vascular Ageing
2016- EuroSoftCalcNet COST Action (CA16115) | vice Working Group leader and Management Committee member
2016- Mentor at Hungarian Research Student Association
2015- 2020 EuroCellNet COST Action (CA15214) | Management Committee member
2006- Member of Hungarian Biochemical Society