She received her general medical degree (MD) and PhD by the University of Pecs, Hungary. She is a doctor (DSc) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences since 2006 and the Head of Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Pecs since 2013. She spent a one year postdoctoral fellowship at King’s College London supported by the Royal Society. In 2001 she obtained the Wellcome Trust International Research Development Award supporting her four year research. She has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers and several book chapters providing key data to understand the anti-inflammatory mechanisms of somatostatin and its analogues, physiological and pathological functions of TRPV1 and TRPA1 receptors, as well as the mediator role of hydrogen sulfide in pain and inflammation. Prof Pinter’s research is focused on neuro-immuno-pharmacology and inflammation. Her main interests are the role of capsaicin-sensitive sensory nerves in the regulation of microcirculation and immuno-modulatory effects of neurogenic components. She has 8053 citations, her Hirsch index is: 53. She was awarded the Max-Planck Fellowship Germany (1989), Royal Society/ NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship, King’s College, London, UK (1998-99), Wellcome Trust International Research Development Award UK (2001-2004), János Bolyai Research Fellowship, Hungary (2005), Szentágothai Advanced Researcher Fellowship Hungary (2014). She received the Béla Issekutz Award – lifetime achievement award of the Hungarian Pharmacological Society and the fellowship of the British Pharmacological Society (FBPhS) in 2017. She is the owner of the Károly Moll Award, the Hungarian Cross of the Order of Merit and the Miklós Jancsó Memorial Medal.
Professor Pinter has sat on committees of the Hungarian Physiological Society (she is currently the General Secretary of the Society) and the Hungarian Pharmacological Society. She is the member of the British Pharmacological Society and was elected FBPhS in 2017. She is the member of the Steering Committee of the International Society for Bioactive Peptides.