Ádám Biczó, MD PhD

Professional experience

• 2023 -: Buda Health Center - Spine specialist
• 2023 -: National Center for Spinal Disorders, specialist of orthopedics and traumatology, spine surgeon
• 2016 -: National Center for Spinal Disorders, Ph.D. student, resident physician in orthopedics and traumatology

Education and qualifications

• 2024 : Schulthess Klinik, Zürich, Switzerland, spine surgeon fellow
• 2023: Specialty certificate examination in orthopedics and traumatology
• 2023: Earning a Ph.D. degree from the Doctoral School of Semmelweis University
• 2018:  Residency training in orthopedics and traumatology
• 2016: Doctoral School of Semmelweis University, Semmelweis scholarship
• 2016: Medical degree – Summa Cum Laude – Semmelweis University, Faculty of Medicine, Budapest
• 2010:  High school graduation from the János Apáczai Csere Practice High School of Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest

Recognitions, awards

• 2016: Semmelweis University, Faculty of Medicine, Budapest – 1st place at the National Scientific Students' Association Conference
• 2017: Congress of the National Scientific Students' Association, Pécs, Special Award

Presentations, publications

• Association of vitamin D receptor gene polymorphisms with lumbar disc degeneration. Biczó Á., Bozsódi Á, Lazáry Á., Varga P.P. Scientific Meeting of the Hungarian Association for Spinal Disorders in 2016, Balatonfüred
• Identifying new markers in the genetic background of disc herniation. Biczó Á., Varga P.P., Lazáry Á. Congress of the National Scientific Students' Association, Pécs, 2017
• Association of vitamin D receptor gene polymorphisms with lumbar disc degeneration. Biczó Á., Bozsódi Á, Lazáry Á., Varga P.P. 60th Jubilee Conference of the Hungarian Orthopaedic Association, 2017, Nyíregyháza
• Association of Vitamin D receptor gene polymorphisms with disc degeneration endophenotypes. A Biczo, A Bozsodi, I McCall, P.P. Varga, the GENODISC consortium, A Lazary, Presentation at the Global Spine Conference, Singapore, 2018
• Application of “custom-made” PMMA corpectomy cage in rare cervical spondylodiscitis: a case report. Adam Biczo, Balazs Szollosi, Aron Lazary, Peter Pal Varga. e-poster a Global Spine Kongresszuson, Toronto, 2019
• Genetic influences on the clinical outcome after surgically treated lumbar degenerative disc disease. Adam Biczo, Ferenc Bereczki, Kristóf Koch, Peter Pal Varga1, the Genodisc Consortium, Aron Lazary. Presentation at the Global Spine Conference, Las Vegas, 2022
• Association of vitamin D receptor gene polymorphisms with disc degeneration. Biczo A, Szita J, McCall I, Varga PP; Genodisc Consortium, Lazary A. Eur Spine J. 2019 Nov 25. doi: 10.1007/s00586-019-06215-7.
• Genetic variants of interleukin 1B and 6 are associated with clinical outcome of surgically treated lumbar degenerative disc disease. A. Biczo; F. Bereczki; K. Koch; PP. Varga; Genodisc Consortium; A. Lazary,” BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2022; doi: 10.1186/s12891-022-05711-0
• Potential molecular mechanism in self-renewal is associated with miRNA dysregulation in sacral chordoma – A next-generation RNA sequencing study. Bozsodi, A., Scholtz, B., Papp, G., Sapi, P., Biczo, A., Varga, PP., Lazary, A. (2022).. Heliyon, 8: 8 Paper: e10227, 9 p.
• Global Treatment Outcome after Surgical Site Infection in Elective Degenerative Lumbar Spinal Operations. Surgical infections. Lazary, A., Klemencsics, I., Szoverfi, Z., Kiss, L., Biczo, A., Szita, J., & Varga, P. P. (2021)., 22(2), 193–199. https://doi.org/10.1089/sur.2019.344
• Outcome of group physical therapy treatment for non-specific low back pain patients can be predicted with the cross-culturally adapted and validated Hungarian version STarT back screening tool. Szita, J., Kiss, L., Biczo, A., Feher, K., Varga, P. P., & Lazary, A. (2020).. Disability and rehabilitation, 1–9. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2020.1799248
• GM-CSF and GM-CSF receptor have regulatory role in transforming rat mesenteric mesothelial cells into macrophage-like cells. Katz, S., Zsiros, V., Dóczi, N., Szabó, A., Biczó, Á., & Kiss, A. L. (2016). Inflammation research: official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.], 65(10), 827–836. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00011-016-0967-5

Providing education 

• 2012 - 2017: Anatomy for first-year and second-year medical students, Semmelweis University
• 2016 - : Practice in orthopedics for fourth-year medical students, Semmelweis University

Language proficiency

• Hungarian
• English 
• German

Memberships in associations

• AOSpine Tumor Knowledge Forum 
• The Hungarian Medical Chamber
• Hungarian Association for Spinal Disorders
• AOSpine
• Hungarian Orthopaedic Association