Semmelweis University

The Semmelweis Budapest Award, the most prestigious international scientific recognition of Semmelweis University, has been awarded to Prof. Petr Widimský, one of the world’s best-known clinical research cardiologists, for revolutionizing the treatment of myocardial infarctions. The treatment of myocardial infarctions by percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), which was introduced in Hungary gradually after 2003, is estimated to have saved the lives of 100,000 Hungarians so far.