Our Academia Europea Award-winning researcher, Csaba Fekete, has become our institute’s eighth member of the Academia Europaea
In recognition of his outstanding research work and achievements to date, Csaba Fekete, head of the Institute’s Integrative Neuroendocrinology Research Group, received the Academy Award on May 4, 2026, at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences’ 200th anniversary general assembly. A few days later, Csaba’s name appeared on the website of another academy. He is the eighth member from our institute to be elected to the Academia Europaea.
Csaba Fekete’s research group uses pharmacological, anatomical, electrophysiological, genetic, and molecular biological tools to investigate (1) the central regulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid (HPT) axis under physiological and pathophysiological conditions, and (2) the neural networks involved in the central regulation of energy balance, with the aim of understanding the anatomy and physiology of the central nervous system neural networks that regulate energy balance.
According to the citation for the Academy Award, Csaba’s research has significantly contributed to a deeper understanding of the brain’s regulation of thyroid function, as well as to the development of a new regulatory model. His experimental results to date and the conclusions drawn from them have helped to elucidate the mechanisms leading to the development of low T3 syndrome, played an important role in the development of a diagnostic procedure for assessing the effects of tissue thyroid hormone, and his studies on the mechanism of action of GLP-1 receptor agonist drugs are also significant by international standards.
The importance of Csaba’s research and the achievements of his team are also recognized by the decision of the Academia Europaea, a scientific academy independent of European governments founded in 1988. This increasingly prestigious institution, which is evolving into a truly pan-European scientific academy for the 21st century, selects its new members through a strictly regulated process; in every case, admission is decided by an independent scientific committee in the relevant field, and the procedure is transparent.
To date, E. Szilveszter Vizi, Tamás F. Freund, Zoltán Nusser, István Katona, László Acsády, Beáta Sperlágh, and Ádám Dénes have been elected as members of the Academia Europaea from KOKI. They are now joined by Csaba Fekete as the eighth member, in recognition of his outstanding research work and achievements.
We wish Csaba and his colleagues further significant discoveries and great success!