Edit Urbán

University of Pécs, Institute of Clinical Microbiology, Hungary

Zsoldiné Dr. Edit Urbán graduated as a pharmacist in 1989 from the Faculty of Pharmacy of the Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical University. She worked at the Institute of Clinical Microbiological Diagnostics of the University of Szeged and then in 2002 as a head of Hungarian National Reference Institute for Human Pathogenic Anaerobic Bacteria.

She became in 2004 an university assistant, she was the deputy head of the Department of Bacteriology, and from 2009 he was the head. She has been an associate professor since 2010 and a full university professor in 2018. She has a PhD degree (2002), specifications of clinical laboratory examinations (1996), pharmaceutical microbiology (1999), clinical microbiology (2013) and infectology (2016). She has a PhD degree (2002), habilitated in 2009 and in 2021 he received a Doctor of Science (DSc) degree from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Since 2020, she has been working as an university full professor at the Institute of Medical Microbiology and Immunology of the Faculty of General Medicine of the University of Pécs.

She went on several study trips to foreign universities between 1998 and 2014 (Graz, Stockholm, Nottingham, Reinfeld, Birmingham, Groningen, Munster, Izmir, Milan, Dubrovnik, Bremen, Heidelberg), microbiology institutes, reference laboratories, anaerobic/aerobic courses, where she represented Hungarian microbiologists and lecturers. Winning a state Eötvös scholarship, she took a 6-month study trip to the UK’s National Anaerobic Reference Laboratory in Cardiff.

Since 1998, she has organized the highly successful Hungarian Anaerobic Courses every year and participated in the organization of several international anaerobic courses.

 

Research interests:

Focus areas of her research: the study of the genetic background of the virulence factors of bacteria, especially anaerobic bacteria, and the mechanisms of antibiotic resistance by molecular methods. Her main research interests are the pathomechanism, epidemiology, typing and antibiotic susceptibility of C. difficile infections. She has published several studies on the pathogenic role of anaerobic bacteria in various diseases, including gastrointestinal, gynecological, upper respiratory tract infections, their role in preterm birth, skin-soft tissue infections and sepsis.

Her writings and lectures received several awards. She is a member of the editorial boards of four journals and a member of several Hungarian and two foreign scientific societies (Anaerobe Society of America and ECSMID).

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