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Curriculum Vitae
1. Family name: Lakos
2. First name: András
3. Date of birth: 12 November, 1952
4. Nationality: Hungarian
5. Civil status: married

6. Education:

Institution (Date from – Date to) Degree(s) or diploma(s) obtained
Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2014) D.Sc.
Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1991) Ph.D.
Postgraduate Medical 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 Flóra High School, Budapest, Biology and Chemistry Branch (1967-1971) diploma


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

Language Reading Speaking Writing
English 2 3 3
Hungarian mother tongue


8. Membership of professional bodies:
  • Hungarian Society of Paediatricians (1978-2002)
  • European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases (1988-2003)
  • Hungarian Society of Parasitology (1991-2006)
  • Hungarian Society for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases (1992-1996: member of the board)
  • European Lyme Borreliosis Foundation (steering committee, 1993-1998)
  • European Society for Emerging Infections (1997-2009) / 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 (2001-2008)
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS - 2003-2005)
  • International Society for Infectious Diseases (2004-2008)
  • 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:
  • Chairman at the 8th Congress of Chemotherapy and Infection (Budapest, 2006)
  • 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)

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

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

11. Years within the firm: since 1994 (professional career since 1977)

12. Key qualifications:
  • Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees on Tick-borne diseases, Lyme borreliosis, research in borrelia cultivation; serological research
  • Chairman and organiser of several Hungarian and international 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 of Medicine, 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, and 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 (e.g. Inflammation Research, a Clinical Microbiology and Infection, a European Journal of Epidemiology, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Plos Pathogens, Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, British Medical Journal

13. Specific experience in the region:

Country Date from – Date to
Univ Neuchatel Inst biologie 2008
Microbiology and Tumorbiology Center 2004-2005
Stockholm, Sweden 1988-2007
Danderyd Hospital - Copenhagen, Denmark March, 1988
National Bacteriological Laboratory - Stockholm, Sweden November, 1988
Rickettsia Ref. Ctr. - France 1997-2005
Baxter-Immuno Ag - Austria 1998-2007
The Netherlands 2004-2006


14. Professional experience record:

1994-to date / Budapest, Hungary
Centre for Tick-borne Diseases (Outpatient Service and Microbiological Laboratory)
Position: Head of Centre
Description: 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)
Position: Paediatrician
Description: screening and treatment of children with infectious diseases, teaching of paediatricians


15. 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 (9 publications and 12 lectures)
  • Serodiagnosis of Lyme borreliosis (3 publications and 3 lectures)
  • First clinical description of tick-borne lymphadenopathy (TIBOLA) in 1997 (14 publications and 7 lectures)

Publications

150 published papers in international and Hungarian scientific journals (cumulative IF: 55.12, number of citation around 1200). 108 lectures in Hungarian (66) and international (42) 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).


Awards
  • "Markusovszky" Award for the best publication of the year in Orvosi Hetilap (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 (Hungarian Medical Weekly) for the paper on "Hereditary fructose intolerance" (1985)
  • "Creative Youth" Award for the paper on "Infantile myoclonic ataxy" (1983)
  • "Markusovszky" Award for the best publication of the year in Orvosi Hetilap (Hungarian Medical Weekly) for the paper on Lyme borreliosis – experience of the last 25 years in Hungary (2010)
  • "Markusovszky" Award for the best publication of the year in Orvosi Hetilap (Hungarian Medical Weekly) for the paper on: Bexsero, a novel vaccine against meningococcus (2017)

Grants and study trips
  • Training course on "Feeding hard ticks in vitro" Université de Neuchatel (Switzerland April, 2008)
  • 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, Karolinska Hospital, and 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)