Dr Istvan Valyi-Nagy received his Medical Doctor diploma from the Faculty of General Medicine, University of Debrecen, Hungary. He holds board certifications in internal medicine, clinical immunology-allergy, hematology and clinical oncology. He also has a Med. Habil. degree from the University of Debrecen. Currenty, he is the General Director of the Central Hospital of Southern Pest – National Institute of Hematology and Infectious Diseases (DPC-OHII). He received his Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Health Manager degrees after finishing his studies in the USA, France and England. As a researcher he spent five years at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.
The main research interest of Dr. Valyi-Nagy is pharmeceutical and immunological personalized precision therapy based on molecular targeting. He is also involved in building structured data containing specific disease registries based on BigData databases and Artificial Intelligence evaluation. Over the course of the past two years of the coronavirus pandemic DPC-OHII has become the leading Hungarian center for the innovative research, development and innovation (R+D+I) and translational activities in Hungary in long standing partnership with its industrial partners Oncompass Medicine, Healthware and eHealth Solutions and experts of National eHealth Infrastructure (EESZT).