Lajos Kadasi

* Ipolyvisk, March 20, 1952 – / human geneticist, associate professor ; ; He completed his primary and secondary education in Ipolyság in 1970. In 1970–1975 he studied biology at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the Comenius University in Bratislava, specializing in human genetics. In 1975 he obtained the title of Doctor of Natural Sciences, in 1983 he became a Candidate of Biological Sciences, in 1994 he became a Doctor of Biological Sciences. In 1975–1985 he worked at the Department of Clinical Genetics of the University Hospital in Bratislava, and since 1985 at the Institute of Molecular Physiology and Genetics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, and is currently the head of the Genetics Laboratory. From 1994 to 2001, he was an assistant professor at the Slovak Postgraduate Medical Academy, and from 2005, he was an associate professor of molecular biology at the Comenius University in Bratislava. His area of expertise is human genetics, and his research is primarily focused on the discovery and analysis of molecular genetic changes in the human genome related to hereditary diseases. In 1985, he was a founding member of the Genetics Research Group established within the SZTA, which was the first in what was then Czechoslovakia to apply DNA analysis to the discovery of the genetic background of hereditary diseases. As the lead researcher of various domestic and foreign projects, he participated in the DNA analysis of the most common monogenically inherited diseases in Slovakia. Thanks to the results achieved, he and his colleagues developed and introduced mutation-specific diagnostics based on DNA analysis for serious and common diseases such as cystic fibrosis, phenylketonuria, Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy, hemophilia A, Huntington chorea, spinal muscular atrophy, deafness, Wilson's disease, Charcot-Marie-Tooth syndrome, etc. in Slovakia. His research group identified two gene defects that cause an eye disorder that leads to blindness that is widespread in the Slovak Roma population. Based on a complex analysis of the gene responsible for the development of alkaptonuria, which is common in Slovakia (the second highest incidence in the world), he revealed all the gene defects that occur, and together with his colleagues he developed simple diagnostic methods suitable for everyday routine use. So far, he has published about 80 scientific papers and given more than 150 presentations at domestic and foreign conferences. Member of several scientific societies and organizations, president of the Slovak Society of Medical Genetics. Awards: Hrdlička Award (1975), Slovak Medical Association Award for the best scientific publications in the field of medical genetics (1988, 1990, 1993, 1994, 2005), Viliam Izakovič Memorial Medal of the Slovak Medical Association (2006), Silver Memorial Medal of the Slovak Medical Association (2007), SZTA Science Popularization Award (2008), Ányos Jedlik Award of the Szimű Municipality (2010). ; ; Main Works: ; Molekulárna genetika vybraných monogénne dedičných apředok, 2005, ; A sme számí székely abnormácie. Their frequency in Hungary, their genetic and external causes, and their prevention options (co-authors: Vogt G., Czeizel E.), 2009.