Background
Szekeres, László Antal was born on July 4, 1921 in Györ, Hungary. Son of Oszkár and Elza (Löw-Beer) Szekeres.
Szekeres, László Antal was born on July 4, 1921 in Györ, Hungary. Son of Oszkár and Elza (Löw-Beer) Szekeres.
Doctor of Medicine, University Medical Faculty, Pécs, Hungary, 1949. Doctor of Philosophy, Medical University & Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Pécs, Hungary, 1957. Doctor of Science, Medical University & Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Pécs, Hungary, 1965.
Doctorate (honorary), Jagello University, Cracow, Poland, 1984. Doctorate (honorary), Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany, 1987.
Assistant lecturer University Medical School, Pécs, 1946-1955, reader in pharmacology, 1955-1967. Riker research fellow Oxford University, 1960-1961. Professor, head department pharmacology University Medical School, Szeged, Hungary, 1967-1991, pro-rector, 1969-1978, professor emeritus, since 1991.
Visiting professor Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland, since 1988.
Fellow: International Academy Cardiovasc. Sciences (Howard Morgan award 2002), International Society for Heart Research. Member: Deutsch Akademie der Wissenschaften, New York Academy of Sciences, British Pharmacol.
Society, Deutsche Pharmakologische Gesellschaft, Czechoslovak Purkinje Society (honorary), Polish Physiological Society (honorary Czybulsky medal 1987), Hungarian Cardiol. Society (Gábor György award and medal 1990), Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, Hungarian Physiological Society, Hungarian Pharmacol. Society (founder, president 1991-1995, honorary president since 2002, Issekutz award and medal 1984).
Married Lenke Rudas, October 18, 1949 (deceased 1990). Children: Julia, Zsuzsa. Married Ibolya Pamuk, March 21, 1997.