A celebratory Session of the Senate was held on November 12th, 2022 to mark the Day of the University at the University of Szeged. During the celebratory Session of the Senate, recognition awards were given. Dr. Eszter Farkas, the head of our Department received a „Researcher of the year award” in the category of Life Sciences. Congratulations for the achievement!
Noémi Lajkó, a former postgraduate student of the Neuroscience program of the Doctoral School of Theoretical Medicine has defended her PhD dissertation titled Kynurenic acid and its analog SZR104 exhibit strong antiinflammatory effects and alter the intracellular distribution and methylation patterns of H3 histones in immunochallenged microglia-enriched cultures of newborn rat brains on November 18th, 2022. Her thesis supervisor was Prof. Dr. Károly Gulya, DSc. Congratulations for the promotion!
The first György Romhányi Conference organized by the György Romhányi College of the University of Pécs Medical School was held between November 4-6, 2022. College members of the four Hungarian medical schools, as well as of Marosvásárhely, Romania and Bratislava, Slovakia were invited. Our Department was represented by Dr. Armand Rafael Bálint, PhD student and Péter Archibald Szarvas, medical student. Péter Archibald Szarvas was awarded third prize for his presentation in his section, and received the Hungary Chapter special award of the Hungarian Medical Association of America. His supervisor has been Dr. Rita Frank assistant professor. Congratulations for the achievement!
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the death of István Apáthy, a commemoration was organized on 12 October 2022 by the University of Szeged SZAOK, the TTIK and the MTA SZAB Neurobiology Working Committee. Prof. Dr. György Lázár, Prof. Dr. Dezső Horváth, Prof. Dr. Antal Nógrádi and Prof. Dr. Gábor Tamás wreathed the statue of the scientist on Dóm Square.
The Student Science Study Group Board of the Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical School awarded 1st prize to Sarah Danica Berger, a medical student in the English year, for her research competition essay titled „Reduced collateral circulation predicts insufficient reperfusion in the ischemic mouse cerebral cortex”. The work was supervised by Dr. Ákos Menyhárt, assistant professor at our department. Congratulations for the research essay award!
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