Henriette Farkas is Professor of Allergology and Clinical Immunology at Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary. She serves as Director of the Hungarian Angioedema Center of Reference and Excellence (ACARE). She holds a Ph.D. in ENT, and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences awarded her a DSc in Clinical Immunology and Allergy.

She is a board member of the Committee of the Hungarian Allergology and Clinical Immunology Society and a member of the Regional Medical Advisory Panel (RMAP) of HAE International (HAEi), the International HAE Working Group, the World Allergy Organization Steering Committee for Angioedema, and the Steering Committee of ACARE. She also serves as Honorary President of the International Nurses Organization for HAE.

Professor Farkas founded the International C1 Inhibitor Deficiency and Angioedema Workshop and the Central-Eastern European HAENETWORK Project. She has supervised 52 student scientists and has been the tutor of 13 Ph.D. students.

Her research focuses on the different types of angioedema. She is a member of the editorial board of Frontiers in Allergy and has authored more than 600 scientific publications on angioedema.