The University of Pécs (PTE) and Deutsche Telekom (DT) IT Solutions are creating a new IT and telecommunications center for the approximately one thousand students of the Faculty of Engineering, Informatics and Natural Sciences, the higher education institution told MTI on Tuesday. In their statement, they wrote that the so-called DT Excellence Center will offer […]
At the Sanofi Pharmaceutical Innovation Center, the biopharmaceutical company is now presenting its global immunology strategy, highlighting the role of innovative medicines and vaccines in the future of medicine. First unveiled at the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris, the Sanofi Science Lab will now be the only one in Central Europe to be […]
The winner of last year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology, Hungarian mRNA researcher Katalin Karikó has donated a copy of her Nobel Prize and the prize money to her former alma mater, the University of Szeged (SZTE). In a lecture this Tuesday, during which she reported on the events of last December's Nobel Week in Stockholm, […]
American businessman, investor and philanthropist Bill Gates – in his capacity as Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – has listed the most important events of 2023 in a Facebook post, and mentioned Hungarian biochemist Katalin Karikó's Nobel Prize in the first place. “There’s no question these are challenging times, but I remain […]
The two Hungarian scientists awarded the Nobel Prize this year, Katalin Karikó and Ferenc Krausz, received their prizes at a ceremony at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in the Swedish capital, Stockholm this Sunday as December 10 is the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel, the founder of the prize. Hungarian-American biochemist Katalin […]
One of the world's largest biotechnology companies and Hungary's first university have concluded a cooperation agreement in Pécs, S Hungary. The contract was signed by Roche Hungary Ltd. CEO Raffaella Claudia Bondi, the Commercial Director of Roche's Diagnostics Division, Adrienn Kiss and the Rector of the University, Professor Attila Miseta. Roche Magyarország Ltd. is a […]
Hungarian-born experimental physicist Ferenc Krausz, who has been the Director of the Max Planck Institute of Optics in Germany, shares the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics with French scientists Pierre Agostini and Anne L’Huillier for “experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter”, according to the award-giving […]
Hungarian-born biochemist Katalin Karikó overcame numerous professional setbacks before shooting to stardom as one of the inventors of the mRNA technology used in two COVID-19 vaccines. The scientist talked to Diplomacy&Trade back in 2021 about her love for science, the outcome of the pandemic and the curing power of her invention. The name Katalin Karikó […]
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2023 will be awarded to Hungarian-American biochemist Katalin Karikó and American physician-scientist Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19, accoring to the announcement of the Nobel Assembly at the Swedish Karolinska Institute. The discoveries by […]
The Hungarian Startup University Program (HSUP) at the ELTE University in Budapest has come to an end: nearly 180 students participated in the program, the institutional HSUP team helped develop the ideas with several university programs, and potential investors are already negotiating with the best ones, the university informed MTI on Wednesday. The Hungarian Startup […]
László Barna Benedek, a senior student of the Szent István High School in Budapest, representing Hungary, has been awarded a Certificate of Honorable Mention at the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), the world science competition in Dallas, Texas in the United States. The world’s most outstanding young scientists, engineers and researchers had qualified for […]
The 35th International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) will be held in the southeastern Hungarian city of Szeged from August 28 with the participation of about a hundred countries. This is the second time after 1996 that Hungary hosts the prestigious scientific competition. According to an announcement Deputy State Secretary for Technology in the Ministry of […]
The most powerful supercomputer in the country has been inaugurated in Debrecen, E Hungary: the ‘Komondor’ was put into operation at the supercomputer center of the Governmental Information Technology Development Agency (KIFÜ) on the Kassai út campus of the University of Debrecen (DE). KIFÜ President Endre Spaller said at the handover ceremony that the supercomputer […]
The high-tech holographic device purchased by the Biomechanics Laboratory of the University of Debrecen (DE) from the donation of Katalin Karikó enables more precise surgical interventions, the institution informed the state news agency MTI. According to the press release, the research biologist, the patentee of the synthetic mRNA-based vaccine technology, donated part of the money […]
Hungary’s DP Innovations Ltd. finished in second place at the leading health innovations competition in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe, the EIT Health, the organizer of the competition told the state news agency MTI. According to the press release, the Hungarian company won second place out of 100 startups in the EIT Health InnoStars Awards […]
