
Biography :
Zsuzsa Szondy received her MD in 1983 in the University of Medicals School of Debrecen. She continued her studies in Indiana and in Oxford University to receive her PhD in 1990. Since then she is employed by the University of Debrecen, Hungary, where she became a full professor in 2003. Her scientific interest is efferocytosis and its biological importance in the thymus, in the skeletal muscle and in the adipose tissue. She published around 90 papers. She was awarded with the prizes “Women in Science” (l’Oréal and UNESCO), Master Teacher (Ministry of Education, Hungary), and was elected to be member of the ECDO Academy.