Ivics Zoltán's honorary doctoral lecture

Zoltán Ivics is the Head of the Medical Biotechnology Division of the Paul Ehrlich Institute (in Langen, Germany), a research professor studying the evolution, molecular biology and genetic technology applications of mobile genetic elements (transposons). He is one of the inventors of the Sleeping Beauty transposon system, which revolutionized the technological platforms of genetic modifications in vertebrate model systems. He is a leading figure in the gene and cell therapy scientific community in Germany and Europe, a recognized lecturer at Goethe University in Frankfurt, organizer and lecturer at numerous international conferences.