Dr. Zoltán Pós
| Email: | pos_zoltan@yahoo.com |
| Position: | Assistant Professor |
| Phone: | +36-1-210-2930/56236 |
| Publications: | PubMed |
Birth: 1977: Budapest
Education:
Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences, Budapest, biologist
Academic qualifications:
2005: PhD in Biology, Semmelweis University School of Doctoral Studies, Molecular Medicine Doctoral School, Budapest, Hungary
2000: MSc in Biology, Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Present and previous positions:
2010-present: Semmelweis University, Department of Genetics Cell, and Immunobiology, Budapest, assistant professor
2007-2010: Infectious Disease and Immunogenetics Section, DTM, Clinical Center, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA, postdoctoral visiting fellow
2006-2007: Semmelweis University, Department of Genetics Cell, and Immunobiology, Budapest, instructor
2005-2006: Semmelweis University, Department of Genetics Cell, and Immunobiology, Budapest, intern
2004-2005: Hungarian Defence Forces, Institute of Health Protection, Department of Pathophysiology, research assistant
2001-2004: Hungarian Academy of Sciences - Semmelweis University Molecular Immunology Research Group, Budapest, research assistant
2000-2000: Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie und Hygiene, Universtität zu Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany, DAAD-fellow
Languages:
English (advanced level, TOEFL)
German (advanced level, ZOP)
Latin (ITK type "B")
Activities in higher education:
Lectures and practices in Medical Cell Biology, Immunology, Genetics and Genomics for Hungarian and German medical students in the first, second, sixth and seventh semesters.
Research interests:
immunology, genomics
Research area:
Investigation of acute and chronic inflammatory reactions in the context of tumor development and progression, immune-mediated tumor rejection, and acute and chronic viral infections by genomic scale gene expression and genotyping analysis tools, large scale data processing, high throughput statistical and functional bioinformatic analysis.
Selected publications:
Ji Y, Pos Z, Rao M, Klebanoff CA, Yu Z, Sukumar M, Reger RN, Palmer DC, Borman ZA, Muranski P, Wang E, Schrump DS, Marincola FM, Restifo NP, Gattinoni L. Repression of the DNA-binding inhibitor Id3 by Blimp-1 limits the formation of memory CD8(+) T cells. Nat Immunol. 2011;12(12):1230-7
Gattinoni L, Lugli E, Ji Y, Pos Z, Paulos CM, Quigley MF, Almeida JR, Gostick E, Yu Z, Carpenito C, Wang E, Douek DC, Price DA, June CH, Marincola FM, Roederer M, Restifo NP. A human memory T cell subset with stem cell-like properties. Nat Med. 2011;17(10):1290-7
Pos Z, Selleri S, Spivey TL, Wang JK, Liu H, Worschech A, Sabatino M, Monaco A, Leitman SF, Falus A, Wang E, Alter HJ, Marincola FM. Genomic scale analysis of racial impact on response to IFN-alpha. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2010;107(2):803-8
Pos Z, Wiener Z, Pocza P, Racz M, Toth S, Darvas Z, Molnar V, Hegyesi H, Falus A. Histamine suppresses fibulin-5 and insulin-like growth factor-II receptor expression in melanoma. Cancer Res 2008;68(6):1997-2005
- Pos Z, Safrany G, Muller K, Toth S, Falus A, Hegyesi H. Phenotypic profiling of engineered mouse melanomas with manipulated histamine production identifies histamine H2 receptor and rho-C as histamine-regulated melanoma progression markers. Cancer Res 2005; 65(10):4458-66
Publications:
Number of publications: 38
Cited times: 403
Independent citations: 381
Cumulative Impact Factor: 145.162
Honors and Awards:
2011: Janos Bolyai Research Stipend