We asked the president of the Doctoral Council of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, abdicating after a three-years cycle, about results of the past years, about the system of scientific qualification, about the value of the title doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and about challenges of the coronavirus.

The ICCECIP 2020 - 2nd International Conference on Central European Critical Infrastructure Protection will be held this year at the Donát Bánki Faculty of Mechanical and Safety Engineering of the Óbuda University as part of the Hungarian Science Festival. The 2020 Pandemic brought new security challenges in critical infrastructure protection and security science.

232 abstracts, divided into 9 topic groups, were presented in words and in PPT by doctorands of the four Hungarian Universities with PhD training for medical, pharmaceutical and health sciences.

Beside the global competition for vaccines thousands of researches try to clear the opportunities for treatment of infected persons by medicines. Until now an only proved effective remedy exists, but more dozens of promising agents are known with hundreds of clinical examinations in process. A summary of academic György Keserű for mta.hu on preliminary findings, on possible targets and methods for fighting the virus and on Hungarian researches.

Interview with the winner of the second prize in the application „Digital Safety Politics”.

At the present there are six vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 in the advanced 3rd clinical state with medical tests of many people. The first three are tested in the USA, two other ones in China and one vaccine in Britain. Available and reliable data expect mass production and availability of the vaccines mid-next year.

Tibor Király, the determining personality in education and research of criminal proceedings law for seven decades, celebrated his 100th birthday on 11th July 2020.

Interview with judge Dr. Ágnes Frech

A scientific summary was published by associates of the Urologic Clinic about uro-oncological aspects of coronavirus.

Balázs Hangya and the research group Elan in the Research Institute for Medicine came to surprising results in connection with functioning of neural cells having key importance in attention, learning and vigilance. Their paper published recently may open new research directions in understanding and treatment of dementias, among them of Alzheimer disease.