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Curriculum Vitae

Family name: Lakos
First name: András
Date of birth: 12 November, 1952
Nationality: Hungarian
Civil status: married
Education:

Institution(Date from - Date to) Degree(s) or diploma(s) obtained:
Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1991) Ph.D.
Postgraduate Mecical School (1985) Board exam of the Infectious and Parasitic Diseases
Postgraduate Studies (1983-1985) Diploma in Sociology
Postgraduate Medical School (1982) Board exam of Pediatrics
Semmelweis University of Medicine, Budapest (1971-1977) M.D., summa cum laude
Martos FlĂłra High School, Budapest, Biology and Chemistry Branch (1967-1971) diplom


Language skills: (mark 1=excellent, 5=basic)

Language Reading Speaking Writing
English 1 1 1
Hungarian mother tongue


Membership of professional bodies:
  • Hungarian Society of Paediatricians (1978-)
  • Society for Infectious Diseases (1980-)
  • European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases (1988-2003)
  • Hungarian Society of Parasitology (1991-)
  • Hungarian Society for Infectological and Parasitic Diseases (1992-1996:member of the board)
  • European Lyme Borreliosis Foundation (streering committee, 1993-1998)
  • European Society for Emerging Infections (1997-) / founding member - financial secretary
  • ESCMID Study Group on Coxiella, Anaplasma, Rickettsia, Bartonella - ESCAR (1999-)
  • Working Group on Infectious Diseases of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2000-2002)
  • Society for Environmental Health - President 2001-
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS - 2003-2005)
  • International Society for Infectious Diseases (2004-).
  • Roasted Member of the Scientific Panel of the ECDC (European Center for Disease Control and Prevention (2005-)

Taking active part in organisation of different international conferences, member of organizer committee or chairman:

  • 11th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID, Istambul, Turkey - chairman)
  • 1st and 2nd Congress of the European Society for Emerging Infectious (Budapest, Hungary, 1998/2001 – chairman of the Local Organiser Committee)
  • Congress and Symposia of Hungarian Scientific Meeting on Emerging Infections (1999-2000-2001-2003, organiser)
  • XIIth Congress of the European Society of Paediatric Infectious Diseases (Budapest, Hungary, 1994, member of the Organizing Committee)
  • 1st Hungarian Congress on Lyme borreliosis (1994 - organiser)
  • 5th International Conference on Lyme borreliosis, Section of Epidemiology, Arlington (1992, chairman)


Other skills: (e.g. computer literacy, etc.)
  • very good user knowledge (MS Office, programming in Dbase and Epinfo)
  • basic software developing knowledge
  • organizing skills
  • teaching practice


Present position: Head of the Centre for Tick-borne Diseases (outpatient Service and microbiological laboratory)

Years within the firm: 12, professional career: 28 years


Key qualifications:
  • Ph.D. degree on Lyme borreliosis, research in borrelia cultivation; serological research
  • Chairman and organiser of several Hungarian and inernational congresses
  • Temporary adviser of the WHO Lyme borreliosis team in Europe (1987-1991)
  • Member of the Expert Council of the Hungarian Ministry of Health (1990-1995)
  • Member of the Expert Council of the Hungarian Ministry of Health (2000-2005)
  • Member of the Expert Council for Infectious Diseases of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2000-2002).
  • Secretary of the Gremium of Infectious Diseases at the Semmelweis University, Budapest (2000-)
  • Many years of teaching experience /e.g.: teaching of paediatricians (Semmelweis Medical High School), diagnostic and treatment experience.
  • Regular lecturer at the Semmelweis University of Medicine, at the Haynal Imre Postgradual Medical University.
  • Member of the examiner board in Infectiuos and Parasitic Diseases at the Haynal Imre Universitiy.
  • Regular lecturer at the Faculty of Zoology of the Szent Istvan University.
  • Referee for some international and Hungarian medical journal.


Specific experience in the region:

Country Date from – Date to
Slovak Academy of Sciences, Inst. of Virology, research on Rickettsiae (tick-borne lymphadenopathy) ticks and humans
 1998-2001
Hungary 1977-
Western Europe:
Statens Seruminstitut, (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Danderyd Hospital (Stockholm, Sweden) - study trip		 March, 1986
March, 1988
National Bacteriological Laboratory (Stockholm, Sweden) - Lyme diagnostic, Borrelia cultivation
 1988-2000
Marseille, France (ESCAR- European study group on Coxiella, Anaplasma, Rickettsia) studies on R. slovaca
 1997-
Austria, Baxter-Immuno (Lyme vaccine development)
 1998-2008
The Netherlands (ICTTD - International consortium on ticks and tick-borne diseases)
 2004-2010
Microbiology and Tumorbiology Center Stockholm, Sweden - research and consulting on Lyme diagnostic
Intercell Ag, Vienna, Austria - Lyme vaccine development, adviser
Novartis Vaccines - TBE vaccine - adviser		 2004-2005
2009-
2010-


Professional experience record:
Date from – Date to Location Company Position Description
1994-to date Budapest, Hungary Centre for Tick-borne Diseases (Outpatient Service and Microbiological Laboratory) Head of Centre laboratory diagnostic and treatment of patients with Tick-borne disease; organizing conferences; postgraduate teaching
1977-1994 Budapest, Hungary Central Hospital for Infectious Diseases(László Hospital) Paediatrician screening and treatment of children with infectious diseases teaching of paediatricians


Other relevant information (eg. Publications)
  • Neuroinfections (six published papers and ten lectures)
  • Hereditary fructose intolerance (one publication and one lecture)
  • Epidemiology of Rota Virus infection (three publications and two lectures)
  • Serological and CNS problems of Lyme borreliosis (16 publications and 24 lectures)
  • Epidemiology of Lyme disease in Hungary (3 publications and 3 lectures).
  • Serodiagnosis of Lyme borreliosis (3 publications and 3 lectures).
  • First clinical description of tick-borne lymphadenopathy (TIBOLA) in 1997 (10 publications and 7 lectures)


Publications:
83 published papers in international and Hungarian scientific journals (cumulative IF: 48.53). 97 lectures in Hungarian (57) and international (40) symposia. Three books dealing with tick-borne diseases published in 1991 and 1992, (revised 1994) and 1996. One chapter of the Medical Textbook of Infectology (1992). Eight chapters in Clinical Microbiology (2000). One chapter in Textbook of Rheumatology (2001). One chapter in the Encyclopaedia of Diseases (2002). One chapter in the Guidelines in Infectology (2003). One chapter in the Handbook for Family Doctors (2003).16 chapters on zoonotic diseases in the Textbook of Infectology (2005). Number of citations: 630. Hirsch index: 12.


Awards:
- "Markusovszky" Award (2010) for the best publication of the year in Orvosi Hetilap (the leader Hungarian Medical Weekly) for the paper on "Lyme borreliosis – lessons learnt from 25 years." (English version: Clinical and Experimental Medical Journal - CEMED - 2009, 3, 213-225.) 
- "Markusovszky" Award for the best publication of the year in Orvosi Hetilap (the leader Hungarian Medical Weekly) for the paper on "First isolation of Borrelia burgdorferi from ticks in Hungary", (1990).
- Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for the paper on "Comparison of four serological tests for Borrelia burgdorferi antibody" (1989)
- Award of Petényi Foundation (for the best paediatric publication of the year) for the paper on "The frequent role of the tick-borne Borrelia burgdorferi in Bell's palsy of children" (1988)
- "Traveller Fellowship" of the European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases,(1988)
- "Creative Youth" Award for the paper on "Lyme borreliosis in Hungary - the first three years" (1987)
- Award of Petényi Foundation for the paper on "Lyme disease in Hungary",(1986)
- "Markusovszky" Award for the best publication of the year in Orvosi Hetilap (the leader Hungarian Medical Weekly) for the paper on "Hereditary fructose intolerance" (1985)
- "Creative Youth" Award for the paper on "Infantile myoclonic ataxy" (1983)

Grants:
  • grant of the Eurepean Community (FP6- INCO-DEVISTREP-CA1 - Health of livestock populations). Integrated consortium on ticks and tick-borne diseases ICTTD-2 and ICTTD-3 (2004-2009).
  • grant of the Eurepean Community for Participation in the European Network for Surveillance of Tick-borne diseases (QLRT- 2001-01293 - Concerted Actions and Thematic Networks) (2001-2006)
  • research agreement with Baxter-Immuno Ag for development of Lyme vaccine (borrelia isolation and cultivation - 1998-2006).
  • study trip at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta) and MRL (Cypress, USA) 1997.
  • grant of the “Committee for National Technological Development” for developing of a new serological technique: Automated immunoblot reader (AIR) 1996-2000
  • grant of the “Committee for National Technological Development” for developing a new commercial Western blot kit for borrelia antibody testing 1994-1995
  • invited member of the European Concerted Action on ticks and Tick-borne Diseases (EUCALB) (1992-1998).
  • grant from the European Society for Paediatric Infectious diseases (ESPID) for a study of epidemiological surveillance of Bell’s palsy caused by Borrelia burgdorferi in children, 1987-1989
  • scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Soros Foundation (1992)
  • Hungarian Academy of Sciences scholarship (1987-1991)
  • “Soros” Foundation Scholarship (1988 - Stockholm, 1990, Danderyd Hospital, Sweden)
  • Research grants from Roche, Biogal, Glaxo, Chinoin, Pliva, Chiron, Whittaker, Sigma, DAKO, Behring, Pasteur, MRL-Focus for testing the effectiveness of different antibiotics or vaccines against tick-borne encephalitis or serodiagnostic kits for the diagnosis of Lyme borreliosis. (1990-2000).
  • WHO scholarship at Statens Seruminstitute, Coppenhagen, 1988


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