"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened."
These words by Anatole France have followed me throughout my career, capturing my childhood love of animals that later inspired my pursuit of a degree from the University of Veterinary Medicine, which I received in 1995. Over the years, I have worked as a small animal veterinarian in Holland, Austria, and Germany, then in the United States and Ecuador. I returned to Hungary four years later with invaluable experience, and I have been working at the City Centre Veterinary Clinic since 1999. In the last decade, my focus has turned to new innovative specialisations: In 2005, I studied stem cells as a PhD student at Semmelweis University, then, in 2008, I obtained a specialist degree in exotic animals.
Aside from being a veterinarian, much of my life is occupied by my love of sports, which I am currently trying to put to use in the field of sports diplomacy. In 2011, I was elected as Hungary’s FIDE delegate, and in 2014, I obtained a FIDE trainer degree.
I am married, and the father of two magnificent children.
My Publications:
My magazine articles:
- Stem cell use in cardiovascular disease treatment
Vértesaljai, M., Piróth, Zs., Fontos, G., Andréka, Gy., Font, G., Szánthó, G., Réti, M., Masszi, T., Andréka, P.
Orvosi Hetilap (Medical Weekly), 2005, vol. 146 issue 47: 2383-8.
Lajos Markusovszky Prize, 2005 - Drugs, gene transfer, signalling factors: a bench-to-bedside approach to myocardial stem cell therapy
Vertesaljai, M, Piroth, Z, Fontos, G, Andreka, G, Font, G, Szantho, G, Lueff, S, Reti, M, Masszi, T, Ablonczy, L, Juhasz, ED, Simor, T, Turner, MS, Andréka, P.
Heart Fail Rev. 2007 Aug 1; [Epub ahead of print] - Remote ischaemic post conditioning protects the heart during acute myocardial infarction in pigs
Andreka, G, Vertesaljai, M, Szantho, G, Font, G, Piroth, Z, Fontos, G, Juhasz, ED, Szekely, L, Szelid, Z, Turner, MS, Ashrafian, H, Frenneaux, MP, Andréka, P.
Heart. 2007 Jun;93(6):749-52. Epub 2007 Apr 20. - Veterinary research in 2006 in light of academic reports
Font, G., Andréka, Gy., Kótai, I.
Magyar állatorvosok lapja (Hungarian Veterinarian Journal), 2007/4 129. 251-256. - The first complete veterinary stem cell transplant in Hungary I.
Kótai, I.,Font, G., Andréka, Gy.
Kamarai állatorvos (Chamber Veterinarian), 2007/1 24-28 - The first complete veterinary stem cell transplant in Hungary II.
Kótai, I.,Font, G., Andréka, Gy.
Kamarai állatorvos (Chamber Veterinarian), 2007/2 26-29 - Oncological use of stem cells
Font, G., Andréka, Gy., Szulyovszky, B., Kótai, I..
Kamarai állatorvos (Chamber Veterinarian), 2008/1 24-25 - Serial Non-Invasive In Vivo Positron Emission Tomographic (PET) Tracking
Of Percutaneously intramyocardially Injected Autologous Porcine Mesenchymal
Stem Cells Modified For Transgene Reporter Gene Expression
Mariann Gyöngyösi, Jeronimo Blanco, Teréz Marian, Lajos Trón, Örs Petneházy, Zsolt Petrasi, Rayyan Hemetsberger, Julio Rodriguez, Gusztáv Font, Imre J. Pavo, Jr., István Kertész, László Balkay, Noemi Pavo, Aniko Posa, Miklos Emri, Laszlo Galuska, Dara L. Kraitchman, Johann Wojta, Kurt Huber and Dietmar Glogar - Circulation:Cardiovascular Imaging. 2008
Published online before print July 30, 2008, doi:
10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.108.797449
this article appeared on September 1, 2008
Presentations
- Experience of the first Hungarian autologous bone marrow transplants in acute myocardial infarction
Vértesaljai, M., Szüts, K., Surányi, O., Szelíd, Z., Böhm, T., Szegedi, M., Szőke, S., Piróth, Zs., Tóth, A., Simor, T., Lueff, S., Réti, M., Masszi, T., Andréka, P.
XLI Congress of the Hungarian General Practicioner Association, Budapest, 9-11 November 2006 - Stem cells: from cell properties through separation to clinical use
Réti, M., Vértesaljai, M., Andréka, P.
V. Hungarian Cell Analytics Conference, Budapest, 4-6 May 2006 - PRODUCTION OF CELL SUSPENSIONS FOR AUTOLOGOUS MARROW TRANSPLANTS
Kótai, I., Font, G., Andréka, Gy.
HUNGARIAN SCIENCE ACADEMY VETERINARY SCIENCE COMMITTEE
SZENT ISTVÁN UNVERSITY FACULTY OF VETERINARY SCIENCE, ACADEMIC REPORT, Budapest, 23-25 January 2007 - EXPERIMENTAL ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION (AMI) CREATION IN PIGS
Andréka, Gy., Font, G., Kótai, I.
HUNGARIAN SCIENCE ACADEMY VETERINARY SCIENCE COMMITTEE
SZENT ISTVÁN UNVERSITY FACULTY OF VETERINARY SCIENCE, ACADEMIC REPORT, Budapest, 23-25 January 2007 - OUR EXPERIENCES IN MARROW STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION IN PIGS IN ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION (AMI)
Font, G., Andréka, Gy., Kótai, I.
HUNGARIAN SCIENCE ACADEMY VETERINARY SCIENCE COMMITTEE
SZENT ISTVÁN UNVERSITY FACULTY OF VETERINARY SCIENCE, ACADEMIC REPORT, Budapest, 23-25 January 2007 - The use of stem cells in medicine (stem cell therapy for exotic animals)
Font, G., Andréka, Gy., Kótai, I., Vértesaljai, M., Andréka, P.
MÁOK Capital Department SzAtok Commission Xl. Conference.
Specialisation opportunities in small animal veterinary medicine.
Budapest, 20-21 October 2007
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Posters
- Direct and “remote controlled” ischaemic post conditioning decreases the size of the infarction area in pigs
Andréka, Gy., Piróth, Z., Vértesaljai, M., Fontos, G., Font, G., Szánthó, G., Andréka, P.
2006 Science Congress of the Hungarian Society of Cardiology, Balatonfüred, 10-13 May 2006 - Complications and issues in treating elderly infarction patients with elevated ST
Szüts, K., Surányi, O., Vértesaljai, M., Szelíd, Z., Böhm, T., Juhász, E., Szegedi, M., Szőke, S., Piróth, Z., Andréka, P.
XLI Congress of the Hungarian Internists Association, Budapest, 9-11 November 2006 - Mechanical complications of myocardial infarctions
Böhm, T., Piróth, Z., Szőke, S., Szegedi, M., Andréka, P., Vértesaljai, M., Szüts, K., Szőnyi, T., Hódi, G.
XLI Congress of the Hungarian Internists Association, Budapest, 9-11 November 2006 - The first Hungarian autologue intracoronary stem cell transplant performed on pigs
Andréka, Gy., Font, G., Kótai, I., Andréka, P.
Diagnostics in wild animal medicine, Budapest, 9-11 March 2007