SEMINAR: �Clinical characterisation of defects of mitochondrial protein synthesis."

Dr Rita Horváth completed her medical degree at Semmelweis Medical University in 1988 and her PhD in 1999 at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, Hugary. Dr Horváth has been active in mitochondrial disease research as a neurogenetics consultant and a researcher in Munich, Germany and Budapest from 1999 to 2007. In 2007 she was appointed as a Lecturer in the Mitochondrial Research Group at Newcastle upon Tyne University in the UK, where she was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2010 and an Honorary Consultant in Neurogenetics. Dr Horváth has been awarded fellowships and grants from the Montreal Neurological Institute, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the Wellcome Trust and the UK Medical Research Council. Her research interest is in the molecular basis of mitochondrial diseases, specifically the identification of new disease genes in combined respiratory chain deficiencies and the factors involved in the spontaneous recovery in infantile reversible cytochrome c oxidase deficiency myopathy. Dr Horváth has published in many prestigious journals including Nature Genetics, Human Molecular Genetics, Nucleic Acids Research, Brain and Journal of Neurology.