Magyar Tudomány 2021/05

The Panel of Young Researchers was arranged the fifth time – this year associated to the Assembly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The lecturer of this year’s program was – due to the pandemic online – Albert-László Barabási, network researcher. The record of the event you can watch now in our article.

Where did she start and which professional way she passed until the development of the mRNA-vaccine, which is one of our most important weapons against coronavirus pandemic – Katalin Karikó, researching biologist spoke about it in her scientific lecture at the 194th Assembly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

A revolutionary new way among hand disinfectors takes the new investment of the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Pécs. We asked Dr. Anna Ármánné Takácsi-Nagy about it.

The key question of drug liberalisation is whether marihuana can recover or not. This cannot be decided by opinions but by researches. József Haller and his colleagues summarise the scientific literature in this topic and publish it in the next future.

Reporting of the president, award ceremony, scientific lecture and decision-making are parts of the conference of the highest decision-maker body of the Academy, started on Monday. Research biologist Katalin Karikó, patentor of the technology of mRNA-based vaccines, gave a lecture at the ceremonial session on the first day after the welcome speech of the president. It was followed by the handover of the academic awards.

„Magyar Drogfigyelő”, the monthly periodical of the Drug Research Institute published with scientific and articulated papers.

The „Research Tender on Development of the Public Education 2021” aims a higher level of excellence. The President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences invited the Research Tender on Development of the Public Education on 24th March 2021. The deadline for application is 14th Mai 2021. We asked Benő Csapó, the leader of the program, about the most important features.

Mission, budget, programs – president’s report at the Assembly. Tamás Freund, the president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, mentioned mobilisation of the public body as the most important objective in his report at the 194th regular assembly.

Dr. András Norbert Zsidó, researcher of the Psychological Institute, was elected as member of the Academy of Young Researchers (FKA) for the period 2021-2026.