Péter Hegyi is the director of the Center for Translational Medicine at Semmelweis University. He has been named the new chair of the Clinical and Veterinary Science section of the Academia Europaea (AE), a leading European academic organization. He graduated from the Szent-Györgyi Albert University of Medicine (SZOTE) in 1996. He obtained his PhD degree in 2002 at the University Of Szeged. He was a Professor at the Szent-Györgyi Albert Faculty of Medicine of Szeged in 2016. He was also a Vice President of the Clinical Department of the AE 2019 in 2019. After obtaining his general medical degree, he qualified as an internist in 2002, a gastroenterologist in 2013 and a clinical pharmacologist in 2018. In 2022 he became Chair of the Clinical and Veterinary Science Section at Academia Europea after being elected to the Academy in 2018. He took up the role of Director of Academia Europaea’s Budapest Hub.