His medical career began by having to flee from Budapest as a first-year medical student to avoid persecution for his participation in the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Rosse earned his medical degree (M.B., Ch.B.) in 1964 from the
University of Bristol. The university later awarded him two additional doctoral degrees: an M.D. in 1974 and a D.Sc. in 1983, in recognition of his research on
blood cell formation and the body’s anticancer mechanisms. In 1965 he joined the Department of Anatomy of the
University of Bristol as a junior member of the faculty. In 1967 he was appointed as an
Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Structure at the University of Washington School of Medicine. In 2000 he relinquished his tenured faculty position and continued his research work as Professor Emeritus. == Selected publications ==