Gabor Geza Kovacs#
Membership Number: | 4787 |
Membership type: | FOREIGN |
Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
Elected: | 2018 |
Main Country of Residence: | CANADA |
Homepage(s): | https://lmp.utoronto.ca/faculty/gabor-geza-kovacs |
ORCID: | 0000-0003-3841-5511 |
Present and Previous Positions
- May 2019 Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto; Consultant Neuropathologist, Laboratory Medicine Program, University Health Network; Principal Investigator, UofT Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Disease (CRND), Krembil Brain Institute
- Oct 2011/May 2019 Leader of the Austria Prion Disease Reference Center, Vienna, Austria
- Aug 2007/May 2019 Consultant and Senior Lecturer in Neuropathology, Inst. of Neurology, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
- May 2016/September 2016 Visiting Scholar, Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, University of Pennsylvania, Phil. USA
- April 2007/July 2007 Visiting Prof., Indiana Alzheimer Disease Center, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, USA
- Oct 2004/currently Consultant leader of the Hungarian Prion Disease Reference Center, Hungary
- Jan 2003/Aug 2007 Head of Department, National Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Dept. of Neuropathology, Hungary
- Juni 2000/Juni 2002 Resident in Neuropathology, Institute of Neurology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- Oct 1994/Dec 2002 Clinical doctor in the Department of Neurology, Semmelweis University of Medicine, Budapest, Hungary
Fields of Scholarship
- Selective vulnerability
- Prion diseases
- Electron microscopy
- Brain ageing and development
- Pathogenesis
- Genotype/phenotype correlations
- Immunohistochemistry
- Body-fluid biomarkers
- Morphology
- Neuroglia in neurodegenerative conditions
- Neurodegenerative diseases
- Neuropathology
Honours and Awards
- 2002 Gedeon Richter Prize (Budapest, Hungary)
- 2007 Erste Bank Prize (Vienna, Austria)
- 2009 Cavanagh Award (British Neuropathological Society; UK)
- 2018 Karl-Golser Award (Südtirol, Italy)