Tamas Balla National Institutes of Health (NICHD), USA

Dr. Tamas Balla is a Senior Investigator leading the Section of Molecular Signal Transduction within the Program for Developmental Neuroscience in the NICHD, NIH. Dr. Balla received his M.D. degree in 1979 from Semmelweis University Medical School in Budapest, Hungary and his Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1987 and 2009, respectively. His research has been primarily concerned with the roles of phosphoinositides in cellular trafficking and signaling with particular emphasis on phosphoinositide 4-kinases. His group was one of the firsts to report on live cell imaging of PtdIns(4,5)P2 and PtdIns(3,4,5)P3 and continues to focus on improving methods by which phosphoinositides and other lipids can be visualized and manipulated in specific cellular compartments in intact living cells. Dr. Balla is a member of the American Society of Cell Biology, the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Hungarian Physiological Society. He is an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

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