Dr. Maria Benedetta Donati,
a "Maria Negri Sud" Intézet (Olaszország) igazgatójának
díszdoktori avatása a Debreceni Egyetemen
2000. november 11.
Professor Maria Benedetta Donati has been the scientific director of the institute "Maria Negri Sud" Santa Maria Imbaro, Italy since its foundation in 1987. Within the institute she has been the head of the Department of Vascular Medicine and Pharmacology since 1995.
Dr. Donati enjoys a high international reputation in different fields of thrombosis and haemostasis research. Her contribution to the molecular genetics of thrombophilia, to relationship haemostasis and cancer, to the mechanism of thrombus formation etc. is of high importance and invaluable for our understanding how the haemostatic mechanism changes in different pathological conditions. She has published 396 papers in highly respected international peer-reviewed journals and her publications have been cited in couple of thousand other scientific publications. She has been elected to several leading position at the International Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis including council membership, chairing the Subcommittee on Malignancy and Haemostasis, and the Scientific and Standardization Committee.
She organized the scientific program of several international meetings among them the World Congress of Thrombosis and Haemostasis in 1997 in Florence. She has been the member of the editorial boards of three international scientific journals. She was honoured by the Distinguished Carrier Award of the International Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis in 1999.
The Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Molecular Pathology as well as the Department of Preventive Medicine of the University Medical School of Debrecen, predecessor of the University of Debrecen, have maintained a unique close relationship with Professor Donati and her institute for more than a decade. During that time seven research fellowships were offered by the Institute "Maria Negri Sud" to members of the above departments. Two further scientists are expected to win scholarships to "Maria Negri Sud" for the next academic year. The cooperation of Dr. Donati and the Department of Preventive Medicine on the EU-harmonization of postgraduate oncology training in Hungary was supported by a Tempus grant, in the framework of which she organized two postgraduate courses in Debrecen in 1997 and 1998. 120 postgraduate students attended these courses. Participants included students from the Semmelweis University Medical School of Budapest, as well. Dr. Donati's scientific work and her internationally recognized role in research, as well as her continuous collaboration with the University of Debrecen deserve the highest honour the University of Debrecen can confer upon her.