Aniko Szabo
Assistant Professor
Anatomy
Alfaisal University
Saudi Arabia
Biography
I cannot express the delight I experienced when I arrived back in Riyadh after nearly 15 years of absence. The sky line has certainly changed in ways that I could not have imagined, all those years ago. When I lived in Saudi Arabia from the years 1996 to 1998, I lived with my family, taking a hiatus in my career to raise my two sons. Graduating summa cum laude from Medical School at Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical School, Szeged, Hungary, I am a Hungarian Physician with an American PhD from Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, NY, NY and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY, NY, USA. After spending around 10 years of my career in different Neuroscience laboratories in Hungary and the United States I spent another 10 years of my career teaching Anatomy & Physiology in Hungary and the United States to undergraduate and medical students. I cloned and characterized a protein, HuD: a Human Brain Paraneoplastic Antigen in the Neurology Department of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, USA. You can find more details concerning this particular HuD protein on Wikipedia. The original HuD paper was published in Cell and hit the world. Its citation index is close to 500. The discovery of HuD protein opened a new field in Neuroscience and many laboratories, including the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, are continuing the work that I started even to this day. I also had the privilege of visiting the Department of Physiology at Keio University Medical School in Tokyo, Japan, where one of my sons was able to participate in a research team of the HuD protein. Even my son had the chance to work on HuD. Currently, I am an assistant professor of Anatomy and I especially enjoy teaching Histology. Close
Research Interest
Anatomy, Neuroscience.
Publications
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Dalmau J, Rosenfeld M.R, Szabó A, Manley G, Wong E, Posner J.B, and H. Furneaux HuD pre - mRNA is aberrantly spliced in tumor tissue from paraneoplas tic encephalomyelitis/sensory neuropathy (PEM/SN) patients, Neurology, 42(Suppl 3):416, 1992.
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G. Manley, E. Wong, A. Szabó , J. Dalmau, M. Rosenfeld, and H. Furneaux Alternative splicing and development expression of HuD and HuC, Paper presented at the 1991 meeting on RNA Processing, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, 1992.
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J. Liu, J. Dalmau, A. Szabó , M. Rosenfeld, J. Huber, and H. Furneaux Paraneoplastic Encephalomyelitis Antigens bind to the AU - rich elements of mRNA, Neurology, 45, 544 - 550, 1995 .
