Professor Tivadar Tulassay has been renominated as Rector of Semmelweis University for another 3 years. By his re-election he received a comfortable majority of all votes at the Senate meeting on 26 February 2009. Having started his duties as Rector in 2003, he will be the first Rector of recent times to stay in office for more than 6 years

Professor Tulassay will start his next three-year term on 1 July 2009.