Lajos Kemény is an internationally recognized dermatologist, corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and member of the Academia Europaea. He earned his medical degree from University of Szeged. Between 1989 and 1991, he conducted research with the Humboldt Research Fellowship in Munich, Germany. After returning to Hungary, he established his own research group to study the pathogenesis of inflammatory skin diseases. He has medical licenses for dermatology, clinical immunology and allergology. Lajos Kemény has been an active board member of all four major European dermatological societies and has served as the president of the Hungarian Dermatological Society and the Hungarian Immunological Society. His scientific results have been acknowledged by a number of prestigious awards, such as the Batthyány-Strattmann Award, Kesztyűs Loránd Award, DG-Dermopharmazie-Innovationspreis, Innovation Grand Prize, Patent Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and recently the Széchenyi Prize.