Andrea Fekete
MD, DSc
Medicine
Nephrology, Pediatrics
Budapest, Hungary
Dr. Andrea Fekete is the CEO and Founder of SigmaDrugs Research Ltd. She is an associate professor at Semmelweis University and head of the Diabetes Research Group. She is a consultant pediatrician with a special interest in diabetology and nephrology.
She has 20 years of experience as a pediatrician, nephrologist, and basic scientist combined with an interest in clinical pharmacology. Her research focuses on fibroproliferative diseases of various organs, microvascular complications of diabetes, and renal failure. She has recently taken an interest in eye diseases associated with diabetes.
She received an MD in Pediatrics and a DSc in Clinical Medicine at Semmelweis University. She was a Postdoctoral Associate at the University Children's Hospital Freiburg, Germany, and a Visiting Professor at the Dept. of Physiology and Functional Genomics, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA. She has more than 70 publications in leading journals of nephrology, diabetology, and physiology. She has two international and one Hungarian industrial property patents. I am a regular panel member of various scientific committees and editorial boards.