Research

Valér Csernus carried out research in various fields of neuroendocrinology. In the early seventies, he studied the localization releasing factor-producing hypothalamic neurons. Later as Ford Fellow in the Brain Research Institute of UCLA, Los Angeles, he collected data on the mechanism of sexual differentiation. In the eighties he used dynamic in vitro methods (superfusion, perifusion) for studying secretory mechanisms of anterior pituitary cells. Using this method he also participated in testing and developing novel releasing and inhibiting hormone analogues for cancer treatment in the Endocrine, Polypeptide and Cancer Institute, Tulane University, New Orleans as research associate professor for a total of 3.5 years. Since the early nineties, he has been studying the mechanisms of circadian biological clocks with various methods (perifusion, PT-PRC, blotting, immunohistochemistry) using avian pineal gland as model. He has fruitful collaborations with various national and international research laboratories including the Anatomy Department of the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg.

Career

• 2006-2012 Vice dean for education, at the University Pécs, Medical School, Hungary
• since 2002 Professor, chairman at the University Pécs, Medical School, Department Anatomy, Hungary
• 2002-2003 Vice dean for education, at the University Pécs, Medical School, Hungary
• 2000 Fellow of the German Research Foundation at the Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
• 1997-1998 Research associate professor Tulane University, New Orleans, USA
• 1996 Habilitation, University Pécs, Hungary
• 1994 Fellow of the German Research Foundation at the Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
• 1993 Promotion, biology, University Pécs, Hungary
• 1989 Postdoctoral diploma: Experimental Medicine, Div. of Graduate and Postgraduate Medical Studies, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA
• 1987-1989 Research associate at the Tulane University, New Orleans, USA
• 1979 Reproductive Neuroendocrinology diploma, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
• 1978-1979 Ford Fellow at the Brain Research Institute, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
• 1976 Specialist of Clinical Laboratory Investigations, Postgraduate Medical Training University, Budapest, Hungary
• 1972-2002 various faculty degrees at the University Pécs, Department Anatomy, Hungary
• 1972 M.D. degree, University Pécs, Hungary
• 1966-1972 Medical studies at the University Pécs, Hungary

Functions

• since 2008 elected representative in the Regional Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Pécs
• since 2004 Expert, rapporteur in the Board of Experts, European FP6/7 Program (Life and Environmental Panels, Mobility-5, -6 and -7 activities),
• since 2002 Member of the International Society for Chronobiology,
• since 2000 Member of the European Society for Comparative Endocrinologists (2002-2010 council member)
• since 1997 Member of the public body of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• since 1994 Member of the European Pineal and Biological Rhythm Society
• since 1990 Member of the International Society of Endocrinology
• since 1975 Member of the Hungarian Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism
• since 1973 Member of the Hungarian Society of Anatomists (2001-council member)