Budapest University Cooperates with Japanese Company

The Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) of Budapest and the Japanese instrument manufacturer JASCO Corporation have signed an agreement aimed at the development of the pharmaceutical industry, it was announced at the event of the University's Innovation Center's Territorial Innovation Platform (TIP) in the Hungarian capital on Thursday.

Balázs Hankó, Minister of State for Innovation and Higher Education at the Ministry of Culture and Innovation, said the cooperation for the development of the pharmaceutical industry is focused on a good area. The aim is to make Hungary one of the top ten innovators in Europe and one of the top twenty-five in the world by 2030, which is why the János Neumann Program was created, which sets out nine measures, including the strengthening of doctoral training and the linking of universities and the economy, he stressed.

The State Secretary also pointed out that the aim of the János Neumann Program is to link universities and the economy, thus strengthening industrial property rights protection, facilitating the financing of innovative start-ups and increasing the number of participants in doctoral training, among other things by providing more scholarships. Among the tasks, he mentioned the results-based renewal of the Eötvös Loránd Research Network, the establishment of the National Innovation Agency and the creation of a Research Council.

Lénárd Darázs, Deputy Rector of ELTE, highlighted that “a lot of emphasis is put on the exploitation of research, and the institution has already accumulated significant research potential. These provide a good basis for the university's successful participation in the János Neumann Program. Outstanding research results are being produced at the university, and their social, economic and technological benefits are unquestionable."

According to the information published on the ELTE website, the Japanese company and the university are cooperating to use the protein structure analysis method of József Kardos and András Micsonai, researchers from the ELTE Department of Biochemistry, in their instruments. The new method can estimate the secondary structure of proteins from the CD spectrum much more accurately than previous algorithms.

The Japanese JASCO Corporation is a market leader in the development and production of optical spectroscopy and chromatography instruments using the latest innovative technologies. The company provides the instrumentation for scientific research and industrial applications in 57 countries on five continents.