The Director of Maharana Pratap College of Pharmacy in India had a chance to familiarize himself with the training system and infrastructure of the University of Debrecen and its Faculty of Pharmacy on Monday. The two institutions of higher education also signed a cooperation agreement for joint education, research and mobility.
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Thanks to research conducted at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Debrecen, we are a few steps closer to overcoming ALS, a hitherto and currently incurable neurological disease. The researchers working on exploring and curing this disease will be awarded the Publication Prize of Count István Tisza Foundation for the University of Debrecen and the University of Debrecen.
The University of Debrecen has joined a prestigious international scientific training program. This year, the institution organized the 2025 Redox Chemistry/Biochemistry Graduate Summer Course for the first time. Twenty-one internationally recognized researchers in the field gave lectures at the five-day conference, and the most outstanding PhD students from partner institutions presented their research.
Genetic and genome biology research was the focus of the Central European Genome Stability Meeting, an international conference organized by the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Debrecen. The English-language event, held at the Learning Center, featured 32 experts giving presentations in 7 sessions and seeking collaboration opportunities.
The Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Debrecen (DE GYTK) has been active in researching therapeutic options and compounds that could later be used to develop a new generation of drugs to treat certain cancer and immunological diseases, diabetes or even Alzheimer's. The most recent world-leading findings and results of this research team have been published in one of the most prestigious scientific journals.
An international network of research groups led by the University of Debrecen has won funding to develop a new type of drug that is hoped to bring breakthroughs in the chemotherapy treatment of cancer. The NextNano4Cancer project brings together experts from Taiwan, France, Spain, Romania and Hungary.
The new building of the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Debrecen has been awarded a prestigious architectural recognition at the international competition BIG SEE Opening Perspectives 2025 in the category Educational Buildings. The National Manufacturing, Research and Education Central Plant and Faculty Building was awarded first place for innovation, intelligent design, originality, environmental sensitivity, sustainability, cultural and social awareness and functionality.
Novel drug candidate compounds, which are currently unique in the world and likely to be effective in the treatment of malaria, have been produced at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Debrecen. The outstanding achievement of the researchers involved has been recognized by a publication award by Gróf Tisza István Debreceni Egyetemért Alapítvány [Count István Tisza Foundation for the University of Debrecen].
The production of several new herbal preparations is in the pipeline due to the cooperation between the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Debrecen and the Tashkent Institute of Pharmacy, which has been developed in recent years. There are also plans to jointly research and develop bacteriophage-based pharmaceuticals.
Andrew Victor Schally, Nobel Prize-winning scientist, Polish-American biochemist, professor at the University of Miami School of Medicine, head of the Miami Veterans Affairs Medical Center Endocrine, Polypeptide and Cancer Institute, and honorary doctor of the University of Debrecen, has died at the age of 98.