Gábor Papp, MD, PhD, is an associate professor at the University of Debrecen in Hungary. He is the Head of the Immunology Research Laboratory of the Division of Clinical Immunology in the Institute of Internal Medicine. After graduating as a medical doctor in 2008, he obtained his PhD degree in 2012 based on his clinical and laboratory investigations on immunoregulatory disturbances in systemic autoimmune diseases. He led several scientific projects and won numerous domestic and international scientific awards. At present, his research projects focus on the changes in function of different T-helper and B cell subsets, as well as the altered expression of certain microRNAs contributing to the development of systemic autoimmune diseases. He is the Secretary of the Hungarian Society of Allergology and Clinical Immunology, and a member of the editorial boards of international scientific journals.