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Eva Maria Fenyö is a Hungarian-Swedish scientist. She began her medical studies in 1960 at the Semmelweis University in Budapest, where her career choices were constrained by the political situation in Hungary[1]. She moved to Sweden in 1965 where she engaged in research at the Department of Tumor Biology, Karolinska Institute (KI), under the supervision of George and Eva Klein. In parallel with research, she continued her medical studies and in 1974 she obtained a PhD in tumor biology and in 1975 a medical degree at KI.

Fenyö’s research focused on retrovirus-host cell interactions. Experience from the mouse leukemia virus field[2] was transferred to human and simian immunodeficiency viruses (HIV and SIV) and enabled the formulation of two basic concepts for HIV/AIDS. One concerned HIV biological variability[3],[4],[5] that governs the virus ability to infect different cells and is tightly linked with the severity of infection. The other concept concerned emergence of neutralisation resistant virus variants[6],[7],[8] that evade antibodies of the infected host.

Initial ground-breaking work addressed several aspects of HIV/AIDS. Fenyö found that HIV was present in the cerebrospinal fluid of HIV infected people[9] and pioneered the field of mother-to-child transmission of HIV[10],[11]. She explored the biological variability of the less pathogenic HIV-2[12] and showed that HIV-2 infection mitigates subsequent HIV-1 infection of the same host[13].

Fenyö carried out HIV vaccine research within the framework of several international networks. Long-lasting collaboration, initiated in 1989, was established with WHO (later WHO-UNAIDS). The WHO-UNAIDS Network for HIV Isolation and Characterization (coordinated by the WHO-UNAIDS HIV Vaccine Initiative) performed the first, systematic world-wide survey of HIV isolates[14].

In 1981 Fenyö became a lecturer in virology and in 1997 a professor at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm. In 1999 she became professor of virology[15] at the Medical Faculty of Lund University, Lund, Sweden.

Fenyö became an current fellow of the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund in 2001[16].

She was married to Egon Fenyö[1] from 1964 until his death in 2006. They had one son, David Fenyö[17], who is a computational biologist and physicist, Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at NYU Langone Medical Center.

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  1. ^ a b Eva Maria Fenyö: Kort gästspel på Horányikliniken (Swedish translation György Fenyö and Eva Dickson). Title of the Hungarian original: Rövid vendégszereplés a Horányi klinikán, A Mi Klinikánk: Emlékek a Balassa utcából, Semmelweis kiadó, 2012, 63-66.
  2. ^ Eva Maria Fenyö, Birgitta Åsjö: Att tänka stort: Georg och Eva Klein i cancerforskningen. Carlsson Bokförlag, Stockholm, 2024, 62-72.
  3. ^ Fenyö EM et al.: Distinct replicative and cytopathic characteristics of human immunodeficiency virus isolates. J Virol 62:4414-4419, 1988.
  4. ^ Berger EA, Doms RW, Fenyö EM et al.: A new classification for HIV-1. Nature 391:240, 1998.
  5. ^ Fenyö EM, Esbjörnsson J, Medstrand P, Jansson M. Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 biological variation and coreceptor use: from concept to clinical significance. J Intern Med. 270:520-31, 2011.
  6. ^ Fenyö EM. Review: Antigenic variation of primate lentivirus in humans and experimentally infected macaques. Immunol Rev 140:131-46, 1994.
  7. ^ Albert J, Chiodi F, Fenyö EM. Introduction: HIV neutralizing antibodies: relevance to pathogenesis and vaccines. J Intern Med. 262:2-4, 2007.
  8. ^ Zhang Y-j et al.: Autologous neutralizing antibodies to SIVsm in cynomolgus monkeys correlate to prognosis. Virology 197, 609-615, 1993.
  9. ^ Chiodi F, Fenyö EM. Neurotropism of human immunodeficiency virus. Brain Pathology 1:185-191, 1991.
  10. ^ Scarlatti, G et al.: Comparison of variable region 3 sequences of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 from infected children with the RNA and DNA sequences of the virus populations of their mothers. Proc Natl Acad Sci, USA 90, 1721-1725, 1993.
  11. ^ Tscherning-Casper C et al.: The trophoblastic epithelial barrier is not infected in full-term placentae of human immunodeficiency virus-seropositive mothers undergoing antiretroviral therapy. J Virol. 73:9673-9678, 1999.
  12. ^ Mörner A et al.: Primary HIV-2 isolates, like HIV-1 isolates, frequently use CCR5 but show promiscuity in coreceptor usage. J Virol. 73:2343-2349, 1999.
  13. ^ Esbjörnsson J et al.: Inhibition of HIV-1 disease progression by contemporaneous HIV-2 infection. N Engl J Med. 367:224-32, 2012.
  14. ^ Weber J, Fenyö EM et al.: Neutralisation serotypes of HIV-1 field isolates are not predicted by genetic subtype. The WHO Network for HIV Isolation and Characterization. J Virol 70:7827-7832, 1996.
  15. ^ Staff at Lund University Retrieved 2024-01-06.
  16. ^ Royal Physiographic Society of Lund Retrieved 2024-01-06
  17. ^ Fenyö EM. Intermezzo. Institutionen för mikrobiologi, tumör- och cellbiologi, Karolinska Institutet, B3A:2 MTC News, No.56, 23-27, 2005.
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