Tamás Fülöp, MD, PhD

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Affiliation(s): 

University of Sherbrooke

Areas of Interest: 

Alzheimer disease, Adaptive immunity, Innate immunisty, infections, viruses, type 2 diabetes mellitus

Biography & Research: 

Tamas Fulop, MD, PhD, is Professor of Medicine and Geriatrics, and Senior Researcher at the Research Center on Aging, University of Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada. He is the deputy director of the Research Center on Aging and member of the Graduate Immunology Programme. He was the President of the Société Québecoise de Gériatrie from 2007-2012. He has directed the Biology Research Programme of the Research Center on Aging for more than 10 years. He obtained his MD degree at Geneva University. He received his PhD in Biochemistry and Immunology from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and was a post-doctoral fellow at University Paris XII in Biochemistry. Dr. Fulop’s NSERC and CIHR funded research since 1994 is focused on immune response changes in T cells and neutrophils and the mechanism of inflammation with aging and age-related diseases in humans: Dementia, cardiovascular diseases. More specifically his research is directed to the elucidation of the signal transduction changes in immune cells with specific focus on lipid rafts. In Alzheimer disease he is interested in the elucidation of the pathomechanism leading to amyloid beta deposition. He is studying the vicious circle of the inflammatory process between the periphery and the brain. The role of the viruses is also studied. He has authored more than 250 publications. He is recipient of the Presidential Award of the IAGG and fellow of the GSA since 2001. He served on the executive committee and participated in the organization of three IAG congresses. He served on the GSA Publications Committee and BS executive committee. He is on the editorial boards of Pathology Biology, Immunity and Aging, European Geriatric Medicine, Journal of frailty and Aging, Journal of Geriatrics and Palliative Care, Gerontology and was Section Editor of the BMC open access journal Immunity and Aging. He is the editor-in-chief of the Interdisciplinary Topics in Gerontology. He is co-director of the undergraduate geriatric teaching program.