Zoltan Takacs

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The native form of this personal name is Takács Zoltán. This article uses the Western name order.

Zoltán Takács is a Hungarian-born toxinologist and tropical adventurer specializing in venomous snakes and snake venoms. He is a National Geographic Society Emerging Explorer.[1][2]

Takacs holds a Ph.D. in pharmacology from Columbia University.[1] As a faculty at the University of Chicago[3] he co-invented the designer toxin technology, which creates a large number of animal toxin variants and screens for those that bind to a potential drug target.[4][5] His other main research area is why cobras and sea snakes are resistant to their own venom.[6][7]

At Columbia University, Takacs served as an Earth Institute Fellow,[8] and is a recipient of the National Geographic Society's Research and Exploration grant. He has been featured on the National Geographic Channel and on the PBS/NOVA series in several snake documentaries.[9][10] Takacs has traveled to 133 countries,[11] is an aircraft pilot, scuba diver, and wildlife photographer.[9]

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