His wife, Veronika Ádám, is a professor of biochemistry at the Semmelweis University and also a full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

The same year Vizi was named deputy chairman of the medical research council department at the Ministry of Health in Hungary.

Vizi was a Riker Fellow at the Department of Pharmacology of the University of Oxford from 1967 to 1969, where he worked alongside Sir William Paton.

He also taught at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Montefiore Medical Center) as a visiting professor since 1984.

[3] Vizi works as Editor-in-chief of Neurochemistry International and as Section Editor of the Brain Research Bulletin.