The multi-year professional cooperation between the University of Debrecen and one of the leading healthcare companies in the world, GE HealthCare, continues to increase in intensity. A framework agreement, which was signed on Friday, will take this successful joint work to the next level, where a focus on radiochemical developments as well as state-of-the-art AI-supported radiation planning processes and innovations could make patient care at our Clinical Center safer and more efficient.
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During the course of their visit to the University of Debrecen, the members of a delegation from the Education University of Hong Kong discussed opportunities for cooperation in research as well as teacher and student exchanges. Thanks to this successful establishment of contacts, the representatives of the two institutions are expected to sign an agreement on this issue this coming spring.
Experts from the University of Debrecen have participated in an international symposium reporting on the results of microbiome-related research conducted at our institution, while focusing primarily on its clinical and oncological implications. Besides presenting the recent relevant research results and findings, the meeting on Thursday also provided an opportunity to initiate and establish new research collaborations that would lay the foundation and provide a roadmap for new drug development programs in the future.
In accordance with the idea of international mobility, Anna Zsófia Nagy, who currently specializes in pop music singing at the Institute of Pop Music of UD, will get a chance to take part in a training program offered by Loyola University in New Orleans. She will be the first ever pop music student in Hungary to participate in an international scholarship program, making it possible for her to pursue her studies for almost six months in one of the key hubs of the music industry.
A renowned expert has joined the staff responsible for the teaching and research activities of the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences and Environmental Management at the University of Debrecen. Michael Gonda, a professor of the Department of Animal Science at South Dakota State University (SDSU), arrived at the institution on a Fulbright scholarship. During his four-month stay, he will be teaching applied animal husbandry and quantitative genetics at the faculty and will also be involved in beef cattle genetics research.
Pharmapolis Debrecen Innovative Pharmaceutical Cluster has held a general assembly meeting. There were 27 member organizations present at the event held at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Debrecen, where these members formulated new objectives and re-elected the management.
A group of recently graduated Hungarian and international students of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Debrecen took their official medical oath on Saturday. At the ceremonial council meeting of the Faculty of Medicine, fifty-nine of these physicians received their diplomas.
Students of the University of Debrecen did pretty well at this year’s NeuroSpark Hackathon held in Elche, Spain. Our contestants, representing the Faculty of Economics and Business, the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Informatics, competed as members of international teams focusing on potential solutions of problems related to the nervous system and managed to achieve significant results.
Two UD students, who are the recipients of Excellence PhD Scholarship from the foundation Count István Tisza Foundation for the University of Debrecen, have participated in an international course held at the University of Reykjavík in Iceland, focusing primarily on the skills essential for innovation-based entrepreneurship. These doctoral students then reported on their personal professional experiences to their peers, who are also exemplary students of the University of Debrecen.
The participants attending a conference in Oradea, Romania, could watch a live broadcast of catheter procedures performed at the Cardiology and Heart Surgery Clinic of the Clinical Center of the University of Debrecen. It was the most recent solutions for a minimally invasive treatment of complete coronary artery occlusion that were presented at this Romanian-Hungarian professional forum as well as during the training course preceding it.