Our public benefit organization was founded by former president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) and renowned neurologist E. Szilveszter Vizi. From 1977 to 1981, he was the deputy head of the Scientific Research Department at the Ministry of Health. In 1981, he was appointed as the scientific deputy director and, in 1989, as the director of the Institute of Experimental Medicine of the HAS. From 1982 to 2001, he was a professor and the Chair of Pharmacology and Therapy at the Haynal Imre University of Health Sciences. From 1984, he is a guest professor of psychiatry and anesthesiology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, New York, N.Y. He became a corresponding member of the HAS in 1985 and a full member in 1990. In 1996, he was elected vice president and, in 2002, president of the HAS, a function he held until 2008. He is an honorary member of both the Royal Belgian Academy of Medicine and the Rumanian Academy, and a member of several other scientific societies.

Between 1990 and 2003, he served as a member of the Kossuth Prize Committee and the Széchenyi Prize Committee.

Our Board of Trustees has three members, while the Supervisory Board has six members.

The Board of Trustees is chaired by Barbara Ürögdi, who is a managing partner in Helpers Hungary and a research fellow at the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Her experience in the non-profit sector stems from New York, where she worked in the adult literacy program of the Brooklyn City Council for three years as a teacher and program manager. As the chair of the Misko Foundation’s Board of Trustees, she takes an active part both in managing our organization and in strategic planning.

Our foundation aims to provide a networking platform for the DMD community and increase the chance of eventually finding a cure for the children affected by the disease. We keep track of research conducted in Hungary and abroad and publish summaries of these efforts. Our foundation also plans to finance DMD research and provide researchers and doctors with grants to finance their studies and professional training.