Wizz Air has again, after 2020, won the Airline of the Year award at the Air Transport Awards, the company told MTI on Thursday. The award was personally accepted by CEO József Váradi at the gala evening in Montreal, Canada on Wednesday, they wrote. The Air Transport Awards annually honors outstanding performers in the air […]
The stunning view from the newly-opened skybar White Raven Skybar & Lounge, placed on the last floor of Hilton, welcomed the Business Heroes who are actively making a positive impact in our society. A press release by the Atlas World Community says it aims to prize those entrepreneurs, who most distinguished themselves in Hungary for […]
Internationally renowned research biologist Katalin Karikó, the Hungarian biochemist who played a significant role in developing the medical technology of mRNA-based vaccines with her discoveries, had been chosen as a recipient of an honorary doctorate by Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest. The awarding ceremony, followed by a scientific symposium honoring Katalin Karikó at the […]
Nyíregyháza Zoo in NE Hungary, has been named Europe's best zoo in the category between 250 and 500 thousand visitors for the third time, according to an independent zoo expert. The prize was handed over at a ceremony in the Nyíregyháza Zoo where expert Anthony Sheridan said that 126 zoos in 29 countries had been […]
The Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Section of the National Association of Hungarian Journalists (MÚOSZ) has recognized the Ukrainian Ambassador to Hungary, Ljubov Nepop with the ‘For Our Europe’ award. In his laudation at the award ceremony this Thursday, Hungary’s former EU commissioner (2004) and foreign minister (2009-10) Professor Péter Balázs highlighted that Ambassador Ljubov […]
Hungarian biochemist Katalin Karikó and fellow researcher Drew Weissman, both of the University of Pennsylvania, will receive the 2022 Jessie Stevenson Kovalenko Medal awarded by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in the United States. Dr. Katalin Karikó is the first Hungarian to receive this recognition. According to the NAS website, Katalin Karikó and Drew […]
Hungarian biochemist Katalin Karikó and fellow researcher Drew Weissman were this year's winners of the Breakthrough Prize, one of the most prestigious scientific awards with the largest prize money, USD three million. The recognition was, of course, earned for the mRNA research that enabled the rapid development of mRNA-based Covid vaccines. The Breakthrough Prize was […]
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan has announced that the 2021 Foreign Minister's Award is conferred on Eötvös Loránd University on August 20, 2021. As a statement from the Japanese Embassy in Budapest says, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) is a prestigious university with a long history in Hungary. With its East Asia Institute, it […]
Hungarian biochemist Katalin Karikó and her fellow researchers Drew Weissman, Philip Felgner, Uğur Şahin, Özlem Türeci, Derrick Rossi and Sarah Gilbert are to receive this year's Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research for their achievements in developing a vaccine against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a […]
Hungarian biochemist Katalin Karikó, whose decades of work with mRNA technology was instrumental in the development of COVID-19 vaccines, was awarded the Ignác Semmelweis Prize in Hungary. In her acceptance speech, the scientist vowed to continue her research, saying that it was crucial to find cures for diseases that had to be "pushed to the […]
Although it was awarded to her last December, it was only this week that Hungarian biochemist Katalin Karikó was able to receive the Public Media Person of the Year Award in person. The Board of Trustees of the Public Media (MTVA) awarded the recognition to the Szolnok-born research biologist and biochemist as the most modern […]
Anna Szilágyi's picture 'European Champions' has been chosen as the best at the AIPS Sport Media Awards of the International Association of Sports Journalists in the category of photojournalists under the age of 30. "The European Waterpolo Championship was a great experience, it was my first official international work. There three photographers working at the […]
László Erdős, professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), shares the Erwin Schrödinger Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) with physicist Markus Arndt professor at the University of Vienna. IST says the Hungarian mathematician is being honored for his outstanding research achievements at the interface between mathematics and physics, […]
Concerto Budapest, the concert film, directed by Imre Szabó Stein and starring András Keller, Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica and Concerto Budapest, won the Video: Events & Live Broadcasts category – and was awarded the Bronze Lovie Prize by an international jury – at the LOVIE AWARDS, the most significant competition for European Internet content. A […]
Horizon Development’s Promenade Gardens office building was acknowledged with a World Silver Award at the FIABCI (the International Real Estate Federation) Prix d’Excellence Awards also known as The Oscars of the real estate industry. During the first 21 years of Hungary’s involvement in the FIABCI Prix d’Excellence Awards Horizon Development picked up five Silver and […]
