• SÁNDOR BELÁK (President)
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  • Joint R&D Division,
    Departments of Virology,
    The National Veterinary Institute
    & The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    Ulls väg 2B, SE-751 89 Uppsala, Sweden
    Tel: +46 18 67 41 35
    Fax: +46 18 67 46 69
    E-Mail: sandor.belak@sva.se
  • SÁNDOR BELÁK

  • • Doctor of veterinary medicine (Budapest, 1969)
  • • PhD in veterinary virology (Budapest, 1978)
  • • Doctor of Sciences in veterinary virology (Budapest, 1994)
  • Time period
  • Working experience and interest
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  • 1969-1970
  • University of Veterinary Sciences, Budapest (research and teaching)
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  • 1970-1971
  • FAO, Rome and Ankara (UN training, foot-and-mouth disease virus research, vaccine development)
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  • 1971-1979
  • University of Veterinary Sciences, Budapest (research on respiratory and enteric viral infections, teaching veterinary virology)
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  • 1979
  • National Animal Disease Center, Ames, Iowa, USA (research on porcine herpesviruses and parvoviruses)
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  • 1979-1985
  • University of Veterinary Sciences, Budapest (research on respiratory and enteric viral infections, teaching veterinary virology)
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  • 1985-
  • The National Veterinary Institute & The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden (research on molecular detection of viral infections, molecular epidemiology, virus-cell interactions, e.g., herpesviruses, pestiviruses, coronaviruses, arteriviruses. Teaching as professor of veterinary virology. Leading the “OIE Collaborating Centre for the Application of Polymerase Chain Reaction Methods for Diagnosis of Viral Diseases in Veterinary Medicine”.
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  • According to my opinion, ESVV should ...
  • • Continue the work on the involvement and participation of the Eastern European institutes and universities, by actively supporting training courses, fellowship policies, exchange programmes and other information dissemination activities;
  • • Further strengthen the collaboration with other societies and organisations, like the European Society for Clinical Virology and the American Society for Virology, to intensify the joint research and exchange of information concerning zoonoses, to establish stronger links and collaboration between human and veterinary medicine;
  • • To maintain and intensify the collaboration with international organisations and agencies (like the EC, OIE, FAO, IAEA, European Platform for Global Animal Health) to conduct harmonised research and international training in the field of emerging and re-emerging diseases, with special regard to the improved diagnosis and control of highly contagious viral transboundary animal diseases.


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