Richter Gedeon Plc. and KOKI have been working together successfully for decades, but on 5 April 2024 they held their first joint, and international, press conference.
We are a neuroscience research institute, and we all agree that there is no innovation without basic research. But that doesn't mean we don't have people who contribute to making this basic research even more effective through instrument and software development. Take Femtonics, for example!
Balázs Hangya presented the first results of his ERC Proof of Concept grant, awarded in May 2023, at the 1st Mouse-to-human Workshop at KOKI on 16 February 2024. The audience came not only from Budapest but also from the countryside.
For at least two weeks now, the birds have been announcing more and more enthusiastically every dawn that it may rain, it may blow, it may cool, Spring is still here, wake up!
In the first week of February, a pretty poster appeared in the elevators of KOKI, followed by a circular inviting everyone to a board game night. The so far unthinkable event took place on 13 February, and the next one will be on 4 March.
In the world, everybody can observe something different that might be worth a try. I was invited to Austria's second-largest university for a Ph.D. defense and a lecture in Graz, the capital of Styria.
The Hungarian Neuroscience Society (MITT), founded on 21 January 1993, held its first conference just thirty years ago. The conference took place in Pécs, Hungary, and was chaired by Professor László Lénárd, the first President of the MITT. The venue of this year's conference was again the University of Pécs, with Professor István Hernádi from Pécs as President of the MITT and Professors Zsuzsanna Helyes and Dóra Zelena as Chairpersons of the INC2024 (International Neuroscience Conference), organized by the Faculty of General Medicine of the University of Pécs on 25-26 January.
The main objectives set by the new President of HUN-REN, Balázs Gulyás, are to strengthen scientific and innovation capacities and to increase the social, economic, and intellectual impact of research and innovation results. To achieve these goals, a new research strategy is needed, which requires knowledge of the current situation of HUN-REN's 49 research institutes and their performance in international comparison.
HUN-REN has invited researchers of world renown to undertake this major work, and the survey will be carried out in the first third of this year.
Older colleagues probably don't need an introduction, but few young people would have known him (even Google couldn't find a photo). He didn't win many awards or huge accolades, but everyone who knew him carries his memory in their hearts and minds. In winter and summer, in 1990, 2000 and 2010, he wore the same worn jacket and trousers, carrying the same notebook in his bag in which he wrote down his thoughts and experiments.
