The new Materials Science Research Institute (MSRI) has been established under the direction of the Independent Section of Radiology, within the Faculty of Dentistry at Semmelweiss University, Budapest. The MSRI will bring together acknowledged world autorities in their respective areas, to facilitate interdisciplinary research projects with a wide spectrum of applications of fundamental and practical importance within the Materials and Molecular Sciences. Specific focus will be on generating knowledge and relevant practical skills, all geared towards the characterisation, imaging and rational design biocompatible and biomolecular materials, implants and all related procedures.
The aim of the MSRI is to carry-out research through the combination of 21st century knowledge with novel methodlogies and technologies, to pioneer the field of biocompatible and biomimetic materials, in Hungary, across Europe and beyond. These goals will aid in the MSRI’s mission of rational design, development and optimisation of novel materials for end-use in practical and indiustrial applications.
The institute and ongoing research therein will provide the foundation for post-graduate and undergraduate training in dental materials science (DMS), at the cutting-edge of the discipline, at an internationally-recognised level of scientific excelence. Strengthening this, is that all members of the MSRI being active in all existing levels of research, education and training.
Primary goals of the newly founded MSRI include the establishment of an international network of collaborators, industrial partners and supporting projects, from which to provide a strong foundation of research and results-oriented leadership. With these aims, missions and goals in-hand, the MSRI will quickly rise to becoming one of the most recognised and effective Materials Science Research Institutes worldwide.
Strict adherence to the concept of sustainable developement will underscore all of the MSRI’s activities, including the estbalishment of theory-based projects. This approach will allow for cost-effective scientific modelling and simulation to guide the emprical determinations being undertaken, towards theory-designed materials. The latter allowing the MSRI to become the first institute to undertake these challenges for materials with end-use in dentistry.