Peter Csermely (48) is a professor of the Semmelweis University (Budapest, Hungary). His major fields of study are molecular chaperones (
www.chaperone.sote.hu) and networks (
www.weaklink.sote.hu). In 1995 dr. Csermely launched a highly successful initiative, which provides research opportunities for more than 10,000 gifted high school students (
www.kutdiak.hu). He wrote and edited ten books (including the Weak Links at Springer in 2006) and has published two hundred research papers with a total citation over 2100. Dr. Csermely is the vice president of the Hungarian Biochemical Society is the president of Cell Stress Society International, an Ashoka Fellow, was a Fogarty and Howard Hughes Scholar and received several other national and international honors and awards including the 2004 Descartes Award of the European Union for Science Communication.
