Dr. Istvan Nagy

Biography

Istvan Nagy is an Associate Professor at Imperial College London, specializing in nociceptive mechanisms within the Department of Surgery & Cancer. He graduated with an MD from the University Medical School Debrecen, Hungary, in 1982 and later obtained a PhD from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1996. In 2013, he received the title of Doctor of Medicine Habilitatus in Theoretical Medicine from the University of Szeged, Hungary, and achieved Doctor of Sciences in Medical Sciences in 2021. Nagy has over 30 years of experience in the field of peripheral spinal neuronal processing, with particular interests in neurochemistry, physiology, and pharmacology related to nociceptive processing. He has been working at Imperial College London since 1998 and has significantly contributed to the understanding of heat transduction mechanisms and the interactions of endovanilloid and endocannabinoid systems, influencing novel pharmacological approaches to pain control. Nagy employs a wide range of techniques including molecular, biochemical, electrophysiological, pharmacological, morphological, and behavioral methods in his research. He leads a research group of undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as postdoctoral scientists, fostering extensive collaborations with both academic and industrial scientists in the UK and abroad. His current research focuses on understanding the peripheral signaling mechanisms involved in burn injury-related pain and the development of new analgesics. Nagy is a regularly invited speaker and has published numerous highly-cited papers and books in peer-reviewed journals.

Research Interests