Current positions & contact information:
University of Bonn:
Professor for Synaptic Physiology and Pathophysiology (Part-time)
Department of Epileptology, Life & Brain Center
University of Bonn Medical Center
Sigmund-Freud Str. 25
D-53127 Bonn / Germany
Email: istvan.mody@ukbonn.de
Tel: +49-228-6885-331
FAX: +49-228-6885-294
University of California, Los Angeles:
Tony Coelho Professor of Neurology and Professor of Physiology
Department of Neurology, NRB1 Rm 575D
The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
635 Charles Young Drive South
Los Angeles, CA 90095-733522
Tel: +1 (310) 206-4481
FAX: +1 (310) 825-0033
For more information on my lab at UCLA please visit http://www.modylab.ucla.edu/
Education
06/1978 Medical studies, Medical School, Târgu-Mures, Romania
05/1981 B.Sc.(Hons) in Physiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
07/1985 Ph.D. in Neurophysiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
08/1986 Postdoc Neurophysiology, Max-Planck Inst., Munich/Martinsried, Germany
08/1988 Postdoc Neurogenetics, Playfair Neuroscience Unit, U. Toronto, Canada
Positions and Employment
07/88 – 04/89 Assistant Prof. of Neurology, Stanford University School of Medicine
04/89 – 01/93 Assistant Prof. of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine
01/93 – 05/95 Associate Professor of Anesthesiology/Pain Management and Neurology, U.T. Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
06/95 – present: Professor of Physiology, The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
06/95 – present: Tony Coelho III Professor of Neurology, The David Geffen School of Medicine atUCLA
08/14 – present: W3 Professor for Synaptic Physiology and Pathopyhsiology (Part-time), Department of Epileptology, University of Bonn
07/15 – present: Distinguished Professor, UCLA
Honours
1983-85 Frank F. Wesbrook Fellowship
1985-87 Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Fellowship
1985-88 Medical Research Council of Canada Fellowship
1988 John Charles Polanyi Prize for Physiology and Medicine
1988 Alfred Hauptmann Prize for Epilepsy
1989-92 Esther A. & Joseph Klingenstein Fellow in the Neurosciences
1988-92 Hume Faculty Scholar, Stanford University
1995 Tony Coelho Professor of Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine
1999 Michael Prize for Epilepsy
2001 Member, Hungarian National Academy of Sciences
2001 Jacob Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award, NIH;
2004 Epilepsy Research Award, American Epilepsy Society/Milken Family Foundation
2005 Ambassador for Epilepsy, ILAE
2007, 1995 Traveling Grass Lecturer, Society for Neuroscience
2011-13 Visiting Scientist, Charité Berlin, Einstein Foundation of Berlin and the NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence
2013-15 Baoyougang (包玉刚) Professor and High-End Foreign Expert “高端外国专家项目”（文教类）, Ningbo University, P.R. China
2015 Magoun Prize and Lecture, UCLA