Emil Monos studied at the Semmelweis Medical University, Budapest, and he received his MD in 1959. Since then he has consistently worked at this institution, presently called Clinical Research Department and Institute of Human Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Semmelweis University, Budapest. He obtained his PhD and DMSci in physiology at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1974 and 1982, respectively. He was appointed full professor in 1983. Dr. Monos was director of the Institute (1990-2000) and deputy-rector of the University (1995-1999). Since 1990 he has been an adjunct professor of physiology at the Department of Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA, where he worked as a visiting professor for more than two years. He teaches medical physiology in Hungarian and in English for graduate and post-graduate students in medicine, pharmacy, and biomedical engineering. Dr. Monos is author and co-author of eight books and more than 450 articles in the fields of cardiovascular physiology and pathophysiology, endocrinology, neurophysiology, and biomedical engineering. He is editor-in-chief of the Acta Physiologica Hungarica, and serves on the editorial board of a number of scientific journals. He was president of the Hungarian Physiological Society (1990-98). As congress president, he organized the 4th International Congress of Pathophysiology in Budapest (ISP-2002), since than he was the President of the International Society for Pathophysiology up to 2006, and continues to serve in the Executive Committee of the Society as Past-President. He is a full member of the American Physiological Society, the Academia Europaea, the Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea, and the European Academy of Sciences. A number of university and govermental honours have been conferred upon him. Dr. Monos and his co-workers have discovered a number of important mechanisms participating in physiological control of hemodynamics and the blood vessel functions, including those of capacity autoregulation of veins. His present research interests are in the regulation of orthostatic tolerance and the adaptation of extremity vessels to long-term and intermediate-term gravitational stress. Since 2005 he has been an emeritus professor of physiology at the Semmelweis University.

July 2006, Budapest