University RDI Prizes & Awards

Semmelweis University has established eight separate prizes to recognise outstanding scientific and innovation activities.

Founded in 2009, the Semmelweis Budapest Award serves to recognise the achievements of an international researcher working in the field of medical biology, whose research activities have produced internationally acknowledged results, contributed to the benefit of humanity, and opened up new ways of understanding living natural science.
The Award Ceremony incorporating the awardee’s lecture takes place in November every year as part of a scientific meeting organised within the framework of Dies Academicus and the Hungarian Science Festival.

The Semmelweis Ignác Medal and Award recognises lifetime research achievement that has established a new school of thought, and is awarded through nomination. It can be awarded not only to Semmelweis citizens but also to researchers from other universities and health care institutions.

Founded in 1990, the Jendrassik and Huzella Medal and Awards aim to facilitate the development of disciplines based on specific research activities. The Jendrassik Medal is awarded to authors, whose publications in the past five years are based on individual clinical research, while the Huzella Medal is given to recognise research in the fields of theoretical medicine and medical biology presenting outstanding work at Semmelweis University. Recipients are chosen through an application process.

With the Hugonnai Vilma Medal and Award, established in 2010, Semmelweis University recognises the achievements of young female physician-researchers to encourage talent support and the development of the next generation of female scientists.

The Hári Mári Medal and Award was established in recognition of scientific teaching, research and innovation in the fields of conductive pedagogy and conductive training in education, social sciences and health sciences.

On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Gedeon Richter’s birth, the Richter Gedeon Medal and Award will be established in 2022 on the initiative of the working group coordinating the cooperation between Richter Gedeon Plc. and Semmelweis University.The aim of the prize is to recognise, honour and motivate outstanding scientific and innovative achievements in the field of pharmaceutical sciences.

The Semmelweis Innovation Award aims to recognise the activities of researchers, doctoral candidates and doctoral students who have developed outstanding innovative scientific research results and solutions in the course of their research work related to the University.

The prize is a cash prize and is awarded every year in the following 3 categories:

• For the most innovative TDK work
• For the most innovative PhD thesis
• Most innovative research work

Recipients of the awards