Valér Csernus

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Valér József Csernus (born January 18, 1948 in Pécs ) is a Hungarian neuroendocrinologist and professor at the University of Pécs .

Life

Valér József Csernus began studying medicine at the Medical Faculty of the University of Pécs in 1966 and received his doctorate there in 1972 and has since taught anatomy , histology and embryology in Hungarian , English and German at the Anatomical Institute at the University of Pécs, first at various levels as a lecturer and since 2002 as a professor.

His scientific activity began Csernus in a working group led by Péter Halász , where he using pituitary -Autotransplantaten in the hypothalamus of rats, the thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) and corticotropin (CRH) producing nuclei localized. 1978/79 Csernus worked for 13 months on a grant from the Ford Foundation ( Ford Fellowship ) at the Brain Research Institute of the University of California, Los Angeles , where he studied sexual differentiation in rats. From 1987 to 1989 he was research assistant for 27 months and from 1997 to 1998 for 14 months as research professor at the Endocrine Polypeptide and Cancer Institute of Andrew Victor Schally at Tulane University in New Orleans , where he researched the tumor growth inhibiting effects of synthetic ones gonadotropin releasing hormone - Somatoliberin - and somatostatin - analogues . In 1993, Csernus received his doctorate in biology from the University of Pécs and in the following year was visiting professor at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg for six months with a grant from the German Research Foundation , before he completed his habilitation in medicine at the University of Pécs in 1996. His recent research includes neurohormonal control of the pineal and adenohypophysis .

In 2002 and 2003 and from 2006 to 2012 Csernus was Vice Dean for Teaching of the Medical Faculty of the University of Pécs and from 2008 to 2012 elected representative of the regional committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Pécs. Csernus has been a member of the International Society of Endocrinology (ISE) and the European Federation of Endocrine Societies (ESE) since 1990, the European Biological Rhythms Society (EBRS) since 1994, the European Society of Comparative Endocrinologists (ESCE) since 2000 and the International Society for Chronobiology (ISC). On October 27, 2004 , he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina for the anatomy and anthropology section.

Works (selection)

  • V. Csernus, AV Schally : The dispersed cell superfusion system . In: BD Greenstein (Ed.): Neuroendocrine Research Methods . Harwood Academic Publishers, London 1991, pp. 71-109 (English).
  • V. Csernus, AV Schally, H. Kiaris, P. Armatis: Inhibition of growth, production of insulin-like growth factor-II (IGF-II), and expression of IGF-II mRNA of human cancer cell-lines by antagonistic analogs of growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH) in vitro . In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . Vol. 96, 1999, pp. 3098-3101 (English).
  • V. Csernus: Rhythmic Pineal Functions in Birds . In: E. Peschke (Ed.): Endokrinologie. Lectures as part of the project “Time structures of endocrine systems” (=  treatises of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, mathematical and natural science class . Volume 60 , issue 1). Publishing house of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, commissioned by S. Hirzel, Stuttgart / Leipzig 2003, p. 67–88 (English, online [PDF; accessed April 8, 2017]).
  • V. Csernus, B. Mess : The Avian Pineal Gland. A Model of the Biological Clock . Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest 2004 (English).

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SURNAME Csernus, Valér
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Csernus, Valér József (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian neuroendocrinologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Pécs