{"id":47884,"date":"2026-04-21T06:00:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T04:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/?p=47884"},"modified":"2026-04-20T16:29:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T14:29:45","slug":"trilateral-neuroscience-symposium-held-to-map-future-prospects-for-german-hungarian-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/2026\/04\/trilateral-neuroscience-symposium-held-to-map-future-prospects-for-german-hungarian-cooperation\/","title":{"rendered":"Trilateral neuroscience symposium held to map future prospects for German-Hungarian cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"
As part of a collaboration that began two years ago, experts from the Universit\u00e4tsklinikum Essen in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, the University of P\u00e9cs, and Semmelweis University presented their current research, this time in the field of neuroscience, and discussed opportunities for future cooperation.<\/div>\n

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The scientific symposium was opened by Dr. Al\u00e1n Alp\u00e1r, Vice-Rector for International Studies. He pointed out that the purpose of this meeting extended beyond presenting the neuroscience research conducted by the participating universities. Therefore, he encouraged the participants to listen to the partner institutions’ talks with an eye toward possible professional collaborations. He extended a special welcome to the representatives of the Semmelweis Student Interest Group in Neurology (SIGN)<\/a> and thanked Semmelweis University and the Hungarian Brain Research Program for supporting the event.<\/p>\n

During the first session of the conference, researchers from the Universit\u00e4tsklinikum Essen presented on brainstem cavernomas, gene therapy in neurological diseases, and hypoxia. Next, experts from the University of P\u00e9cs discussed the translational model of cognition, the examination of pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide in Parkinson’s disease, cardiac dysfunctions following an epileptic seizure, and the neuroinflammatory, psychological, and pain matrix activity and connectivity alterations in fibromyalgia patients.<\/p>\n\r\n [slb_exclude]\r\n

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The third session of the symposium showcased the ongoing research at Semmelweis University: Dr. Andr\u00e1s Attila Horv\u00e1th, Associate Professor at the Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, spoke about the role of excitatory \/ inhibitory imbalance in the pathogenesis of cognitive decline. Dr. \u00c1rp\u00e1d Dobolyi, Scientific Advisor at the Institute of Anatomy, Histology, and Embryology, as well as at the Human Brain Tissue Bank led by Dr. Mikl\u00f3s Palkovits, focused on the use of postmortem samples from the Human Brain Tissue Bank for transcriptomics research. Dr. P\u00e9ter Petschner, Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacodynamics, provided insights into migraine and depression via omics approaches, fMRI, and EEG. Dr. S\u00e1ndor Nardai, Associate Professor and Chief Physician at the V\u00e1rosmajor Heart and Vascular Center, gave a presentation titled “Experimental and Clinical Investigations to Improve the Prognosis of Cerebral Large Vessel Occlusions.”<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In an interview with our website regarding the symposium, Dr. Al\u00e1n Alp\u00e1r explained that Otto Wulff, a German conservative politician who served on the Federal Executive Board of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) for nearly 30 years and is deeply committed to fostering German-Hungarian regional ties, was the driving force behind the idea for academic cooperation. Among Hungary\u2019s medical schools, the universities of P\u00e9cs and Budapest responded to the initiative two years ago, and Semmelweis University thereby further strengthened its existing professional ties with the German higher education institution.<\/p>\n

Following the German university clinic\u2019s introductory visit to Hungary, the participants held a scientific symposium in Essen in the fall of 2024<\/a>, with cardiovascular and neurovascular topics on the agenda. Dr. Al\u00e1n Alp\u00e1r emphasized that the purpose of the current trilateral meeting was to present the institutions’ neuroscience profiles and their broadest spectrum of ongoing clinical and applied research projects.<\/p>\n

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“The main opportunity \u2013 indeed, the duty \u2013 of this symposium is to identify the areas of common interest that could give rise to future collaborations. We aim to address topics that not only showcase the work being done here, but also offer us opportunities for learning.” \u2014 Dr. Al\u00e1n Alp\u00e1r<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\nPhotos by Bogl\u00e1rka Zellei \u2013 Semmelweis University<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Besides Semmelweis University, experts from the medical schools in Essen and P\u00e9cs also presented their research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102255,"featured_media":47890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,286],"tags":[78,29],"class_list":["post-47884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-semmelweis-world","category-x-nyitolap","tag-international-relations","tag-research"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47884"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47902,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47884\/revisions\/47902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}