{"id":39721,"date":"2023-12-15T14:27:42","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T13:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/?p=39721"},"modified":"2025-01-04T07:37:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T06:37:29","slug":"tomorrows-story-is-written-today-the-semmelweis-symposium-launched-with-translational-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/2023\/12\/tomorrows-story-is-written-today-the-semmelweis-symposium-launched-with-translational-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTomorrow\u2019s story is written today\u201d \u2013 the Semmelweis Symposium launched with translational medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"
The 31st Semmelweis Symposium was held from 11 to 13 December 2023. On the first day of the three-day scientific event, the main focus was on international cooperation, with Semmelweis University, Academia Europaea, the National Biomedical Foundation and The Chinese University of Hong Kong signing a cooperation agreement in the field of translational medicine.<\/div>\n

The three-day event was opened by the rector of Semmelweis University. Referring to this year\u2019s motto, \u201eCelebrating Excellence\u201d, Dr. B\u00e9la Merkely reminded participants that while excellence may seem to be linked to the achievement of a particular accomplishment, it actually requires a strong inner drive, a firm belief, and years of steady and consistent work.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>He set the recent Hungarian Nobel Prize winners, Dr. Katalin Karik\u00f3 and Dr. Ferenc Krausz, as the most current and uplifting example of this. \u201cTheir success also draws attention to Hungarian higher education, science, and the importance of international collaboration. The key to scientific success and progress today is cooperation, networking and cross-border knowledge transfer. This is the purpose, meaning and mission of Semmelweis Symposium,\u201d the rector stressed. He added that the university is proud to have an intense and ongoing scientific relationship with both of the newly awarded scientists, and he considered equally important and honoring that Dr. Randy Schekman, a Nobel laureate, also gives a lecture at the symposium.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Dr. P\u00e9ter Ferdinandy, Vice-Rector for Science and Innovations introduced Semmelweis University to the audience in numbers. He briefly listed the institution\u2019s position in international rankings and its main parameters regarding the innovation ecosystem, namely that it boasts with over 300 research groups and more than 15,000 publications annually, with a steep increase in the number of PhD students as well as the impact factor of university publications. Dr. P\u00e9ter Ferdinandy outlined the university\u2019s most important research, development and innovation goals and support system, the leading fields of scientific excellence, and stressed that in order to speed up innovations, they will further develop core facilities, the infrastructure for spin-off companies, incubation services for early-stage projects, and immerse students in innovation activities.<\/p>\n

Dr. Ole Petersen, Professor Emeritus at Cardiff University and Director of the Academia Europaea Cardiff Knowledge Hub introduced the association and its function. Academia Europaea\u2019s foundation meeting took place in Cambridge in 1988, and its most important task is to generate scientific advice for policy. Its well established knowledge hubs are now spread across Europe, namely in Wroclaw, Barcelona, Bergen, Munich, Tbilisi, Cardiff, and Budapest (opened in 2020).<\/p>\n