Gyula Balka

Gyula Balka graduated in 2003 at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Budapest. Right after that he started to work at the Department of Pathology, where he got his PhD degree in 2009. His topic was the estimation of prevalence of PRRS in Hungary, genotyping of the Hungarian strains and improvement of diagnostics in the country. Since then, he is teaching pathology and histopathology to veterinary students in Hungarian and English. He got his habilitation in 2015 and since January 2017 he is in an associate professor position. From 2014 he is the editor-in-chief of the Hungarian Veterinary Journal. Recently, as a consortium member, his group has completed a H2020 project, named SWINOSTICS in which they have developed a point-of-care diagnostic device for the detection of several porcine viruses. Currently they are involved in an EU ICRAD project aiming to introduce the Nanopore sequencing technology in the routine diagnostics of porcine viruses. He is supervising the work of 3 PhD students in topics of digital pathology, porcine molecular virology with special focus on PRRSV and APPV, Porcine parainfluenzavirus-1, as well as porcine circo and parvoviruses. 

Updated CV 02-Sep-2022