Peter Kasa, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc.,
   Professor & Head 
kp@comser.szote.u-szeged.hu

• Medical University, Szeged, Hungary, M.D. 1959
• Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, Ph.D. 1969
• Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, D.Sc. 1982

        Professor and Head

Since 1973

• Int. Brain Res. Org. (IBRO)
• Int. Soc. Neurochem. (ISN) (Member of the Membership Commitee, 1983-1988)
• Int. Soc. Neuropathol. (ISN)
• Int. Soc. Dev. Neurosci. (ISDN)
• Eur. Neurosci. Ass. (ENA)

• Recipient of a Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust, England, Cambridge, June 1967 - June 1968
• Reward from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1968
• Recipient of a Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust, England, Cambridge, May 1969 - May 1970
• Special Grant (10.000 £) from the Wellcome trust, England, 1971
• Prize for the outstanding University teaching work, honoured by the Health Minister, 1973
• Order of Labour, Silver grade, awarded by the Presidental Council of the Government, 1973
• D.Sc., Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, 1982
• Visiting Professor, New York University and Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research,

Orangenburg, New York, October 1989 - January 1990
• Financial support from the World Bank to create an Alzheimer's Disease Research Centre and

Brain Bank (350.000 US $) (1992-1994)

        Alzheimer's Disease:
neuropathology, neurochemistry, neuroanatomy, immunocytochemistry, neuronal toxicity, ß-amyloid, transmitter systems, trace metals, blood-brain barrier.

        Research, administration, teaching.

• Lectures to Medical Students, Szeged
• Post-graduate teaching, Szeged
• Member, Scientific Commitee, Medical University, Szeged, 1978-1992
• Elected Member, University Council, Szeged, 1978-1986
• Vice-Dean, Medical University, Medical Faculty, 1983-1986

Rewiever: Anal. Biochem., J. Neurochem., J. Gen. Physiol. Biochem., Acta Physiol. Hung., Acta Biol. Hung., Brain Res. Bull.

• Kasa, P., Rakonczay, Z., Gulya, K. (1997) The cholinergic system in Alzheimer's disease. Progr. Neurobiol. 52, 511-535.
• Kasa, P., Karcsu, S., Kovacs, I., Wolff, J.R. (1996) Cholinoceptive neurons without acetylcholinesterase activity and enzime-positive neurons without cholinergic synaptic innervation are present in the main olfactory bulb of adult rat. Neuroscience 73, 831-844.
• Kasa, P., Farkas, Z., Balaspiri, L., Wolff, J.R. (1996) The structural localization of galanin, and its function in modulating acetylcholine release in the olfactory bulb of adult rat. Neuroscience 72, 709-723.
• Kasa, P., Szerdehelyi, P., Wisniewski, H.M. (1995) The lack of topographical relationship between sites of aluminum deposition and senile plaques in the Alzheimer's disease brain. Acta Neuropathol. 90, 526-531.
• Kasa, P., Hlavati, I., Dobo, E., Wolff, A., Joo, F., Wolff, J.R. (1995) Synaptic and non-synaptic cholinergic innervation of the various types of neurons in the main olfactory bulb of adult rat: immunocytochemistry of choline acetyltransferase. Neuroscience 67, 667-677.
• Kasa, P., Pakaski, M., Joo, F., Lajtha, A. (1991) Endothelial cells from human fetal brain microvessels may be cholinoceptive, but do not synthesize acetylcholine. J. Neurochem. 56, 2143-2146.
• Kasa, P. (1986) The role of glial cells in neuronal acetylcholine synthesis. Dinamics of Cholinergic Function (Ed: I. Hanin) pp. 907-913, Plenum Press, New York-London.
• Kasa, P. (1986) The cholinergic systems in brain and spinal cord. Progr. Neurobiol. 26, 211-272.
• Kasa, P. (1970) Localization of Choline Acetyltransferase. Nature 226, 812-816.
• Kasa, P. (1968) Acetylcholinesterase transport in the central and peripheral nervous tissue: the role of tubules in the enzyme transport. Nature 218, 1265-1267.

        Reading and gardening.