Education
He graduated from the Gábor Bethlen Secondary Grammar School at Hódmezővásárhely in 1960.
He graduated from the Gábor Bethlen Secondary Grammar School at Hódmezővásárhely in 1960.
He took a degree at the Medical University of Szeged in 1966. He started to work at the Department of Microbiology while studying at the university and continued his research with interferon after his graduation in Szeged. His supervisor was Imre Mécs.
Meanwhile, he was awarded a scholarship to the Department of Microbiology in Birmingham, England and to the Johns Hopkins University Oncology Center with Professor Paula M. Pitha-Rowe in Baltimore, the United States.
He is known for interferon, especially the mechanism of the priming effect of interferon, then interleukin-6 and tumor necrosis factor. He was a devoted hiker and made his last trip in Mount Fuji, Japan when he was wounded mortally while climbing down the mountain in the time of the International Society for Interferon and Cytokine Research (ISICR) Meeting in Tokyo.
He was buried in his native land. His father, Ernő Rosztóczy, senior (1899–1969) was a physician.
His mother was Ilona Nagy.
He had two siblings.
Hungarian Academy of Sciences.