Endre Czeizel
Endre Czeizel ( April 3, 1935 - August 10, 2015 ) was a Hungarian doctor, genetic researcher and professor. He completed his studies at the Semmelweis University in Budapest. He became famous for the discovery that the vitamin folic acid prevents various prenatal developmental disorders, e.g. B. neural tube defects such as spina bifida .
Czeizel was the director of the WHO Collaborating Center for the Community Control of Hereditary Diseases in Hungary from 1984 and from 1996 to 1998 he was the director of the National Institute of Health of Hungary.
He wrote some of his scientific publications under the name Andrew E. Czeizel . In the last few years of his life, Czeizel suffered from leukemia, which was initially successfully treated with a bone marrow transplant. However, one year after this therapy he died of his illness.
Prices
- SZOT Prize (1977)
- Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic (1995)
- Kennedy Award (2000)
- Cross of the Order of Merit of Hungary (2005)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Elhunyt Czeizel Endre (Hungarian). origo.hu. August 10, 2015. Retrieved August 18, 2015.
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| SURNAME | Czeizel, Endre |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian doctor and genetic researcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 3, 1935 |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 10, 2015 |