Assistant Professor Appointments

Dr. Anna Törteli, postdoctoral researcher, and Dr. István Pesti, assistant lecturer, have been appointed as Assistant Professors at the Faculty of Science and Informatics, effective 1 June 2026. We warmly congratulate our colleagues on this important milestone in their academic careers and wish them continued success in their teaching and research activities.

The PhD defense of Gábor Barczánfalvi

Gábor Barczánfalvi, a postgraduate student of the Doctoral School of Experimental and Preventive Medicine has defended his PhD dissertation titled “Quantitative histological and in vitro fluorescence microscopy image analysis: workflow automation, deep learning, and morphometric profiling of subcellular, cellular, and extracellular components of nervous tissue origin” on May 27th, 2026. His thesis supervisors were Prof. Dr. Károly Gulya, DSc. and Dr. József Tolnai. Warm congratulations on the promotion!

The PhD defense of Dr. Réka Tóth

Dr. Réka Tóth, former postgraduate student of the Regulation, Measurement and Analysis of Life Processes program at the Doctoral School of Theoretical Medicine, has successfully defended her PhD dissertation with summa cum laude distinction on May 26, 2026. Her thesis is entitled Cerebral edema evolution and the role of aquaporin‑4 in secondary injury after acute ischemic stroke. Her thesis supervisor was Dr. Ákos Menyhárt. Réka is currently a radiology resident at the Department of Radiology of the University of Szeged, where she is already putting her research expertise to use. Congratulations on her achievement and well‑deserved promotion!

Grant Recipients of the Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical School Research Fund

The certificate award ceremony for the recipients of the 2025 Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical School Research Fund Grants was held on 19 May 2026 in the main lecture hall of the Ilona Banga Health Sciences Training Centre. We are proud that, from our Department, Dr. Anita Annaházi received the Albert Szent-Györgyi Research Grant certificate, while Dr. Rita Frank received the Postdoctoral Research Grant certificate. We warmly congratulate them on receiving the grants!

TALENT Scholarship and the List of Excellence awards

The University of Szeged has once again announced the 2026 call for applications for the TALENT Scholarship and the List of Excellence, which recognize university students for outstanding academic, research, athletic, or artistic achievements once per academic year. Recipients may be awarded bronze, silver, or gold recognition within the List of Excellence. We are proud that among the students conducting research in the Department, Eszter Gáspár and Péter Szakács received bronze-level recognition, while Sára Pető received silver-level recognition. We warmly congratulate our award winners!

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Cellbio

Our courses in the BSc and MSc biology program are given at the Biology Institute of the Faculty of Science and Informatics. We also contribute to the medical education with elective courses, and teach biology in the pre-medical program at the Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical School. Our required and elective courses are given in Hungarian and English. The study material focuses on topics in cell biology and molecular biology. We teach a foundation course in the postgraduate program and provide project supervision to several PhD students.

Three productive research groups pursue experimental projects in the field of stem cell research, neuroinflammatory processes, and the cellular pathomechanisms of acute cerebrovascular diseases. We conduct basic and translational research. Our research is integrated into dynamic national and international collaborative networks.

Our experienced staff members are dedicated to education and research. Our goal is to provide up-to-date teaching material and to build a firm basis in cell biology - a dynamically evolving field of science. We would like to promote an experimental, scientific approach to learning, and make research and academic careers attractive to students.

Eszter Farkas

Prof. Dr. Eszter Farkas
professor
department chair