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!

Mobility Grant from the Pannónia Scholarship Program

 

   Pető Sára, a BSc Biology student conducting undergraduate research at the Department, has been awarded support through the Pannónia Scholarship Program, enabling her to participate in the Young European Scientist Congress, which will be held in Porto, Portugal, between 17–20 September 2026. The congress is organized by students of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto with the aim of bringing together European students and young researchers working in the field of biomedicine, while also providing an opportunity to present their research results in an international setting. We wish her a productive and rewarding conference experience and warmly congratulate her on receiving the scholarship support.

SZTE VIRTUS 2026/1 Grant Award

 

   We are pleased to announce that Dr. Ákos Menyhárt, Associate professor at our Department has been awarded funding in the SZTE VIRTUS 2026/1 Grant Competition, based on the decision of the Governing Board of the Interdisciplinary Research, Development, and Innovation Center of Excellence. The funded proposal, titled “Rodent Whisker Pad Stimulator for the Investigation of Neurovascular Coupling and Drug Testing,” aims to develop novel devices and measurement procedures to support research on neurovascular coupling and pharmacological testing. Congratulations on receiving the grant!

Local Student Research Conference Spring Round

 

   The local spring rounds of the Student Research Conference were held on May 7, 2026, at the institutes of the Faculty of Science and Informatics (TTIK) at the University of Szeged. In the Biology - Physiology section, our department was represented by four BSc biology students: Eszter Gáspár, Balázs Nagy, Sára Pető, and Béla Resch. With their successful presentations, the students achieved one second prize and three third prozes, and all of them have advanced to next year’s national conference. We warmly congratulate the students and their supervisors!

MTA Call for Proposals to Support Researchers Raising Children

 

   The Hungarian Academy of Sciences has issued a call for proposals aimed at supporting the academic advancement of researchers raising children. Dr. Anita Annaházi, an assistant professor in our Department, submitted an application to support the publication of her scientific results. We are pleased to announce that her proposal was recommended for funding by the review panel and has been awarded a grant. We warmly congratulate her on this achievement!