This year, the 53rd World Medical Tennis Championship was hosted by Semmelweis University in Budapest. This is the third time this international sports event is organized in Hungary, after 1990 and 1998. More than 350 players from 25 countries gathered to compete in 8 women’s and 10 men’s categories. In addition, players also contested in the Nations’ Cup.
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From September, space professionals will be trained in English at the University of Debrecen. Prospective students will be able to learn about space medicine, space telemedicine, and space pharmacy and space nutrition, among other things, as part of the UniSpace programmed. The postgraduate specialization will start in September and applications are open until 12 August.
Kim Geun Yeong, a world-famous esports player has high aspirations, both as a medical student and as a professional competitor. His contract with DEAC was to end this summer, but he had it prolonged a few days ago and said that Debrecen University was proved to be the best choice for his studies and sport.
More than forty staff members of the University of Debrecen Clinical Centre were honoured for their outstanding and exemplary work at the Semmelweis Day ceremony. At Friday's event, Zoltán Szabó, President of the Clinical Centre, presented the Presidential Diplomas of Recognition, the Clinical Chief Physician Awards, the Clinical Centre Patient Care Medal, and the Outstanding Physician Medal and Award in the renovated boardroom of the President's Office.
The International Student Union (ISU), an organization of foreign students of the University of Debrecen, donated more than one million HUF from the proceeds of this year's Food Day to the Foundation for Children with Leukemia. The money will be used to build a special sterile room in the paediatric haematology-oncology department.
The Executive Committee of EBSA, the European Federation of Biophysical Societies, held its latest meeting at the Faculty of General Medicine of the University of Debrecen. The two-day meeting discussed, among other things, the themes of the forthcoming professional congresses, the editing of the association's journal, and decisions were made on the grants to be awarded to young researchers.
This year's congress of European membrane scientists was held at the University of Debrecen, where the latest research results in the field were discussed at the European Joint Theory/Experiment Meeting on Membranes (EJTEMM), which took place between 12 and 14 June. The meeting was organised by the Institute of Biophysics and Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine.