Yvette Mándi

Yvette Mándi studied medicine at the University of Medical School in Szeged. He graduated in 1971 as a medical Doctor. Mándi is a Professor, Head of the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunobiology, University of Szeged, Hungary. He teached medical microbiology and immunology for medical and pharmaceutical students in Hungarian and English classes. He also presented lectures, practices, and examinations. He is the Head of the Ph.D. program of interdisciplinary medical sciences; and has supervised 6 Ph.D. theses and there are further two in process. He has been a staff member at the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunobiology since 1971. He recieved a two-week fellowship from the Microbiological Institute of Turku University, Finland, in 1986; a two-month fellowship from the National Hospital of University of Oslo, Norway, in 1991; a two-week fellowship from the Weizmannn Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel; and Széchenyi Professor's Fellowship in 1997. He obtained his Ph.D. degree of medical sciences in 1987, with the title “Effect of interferon and adenovirus on natural cytotoxicity,” and his D.S. degree in 1997, with the title “Modulation of natural cytotoxicity and cytokine production.” He is a Member of the Hungarian Society of Microbiology, the Hungarian Society of Immunology, the International Society of Interferon and Cytokine Research, and the European Cytokine Society. His research interests are in the cytokine profile in septic patients, the cytokine profile in Helicobacter pylori-infected patients suffering gastric ulcer, and cytokine gene polymorphisms in diseases of multiplex aetiology.

Biography Updated on 7 April 2008