Prous Institute – Overton and Meyer Award for New Technologies in Drug Discovery
The „Prous Institute-Overton and Meyer Award for New Technologies in Drug Discovery” was established to encourage innovation and investigation in technologies related to drug discovery. The Award is given biennially to acknowledge the discovery, evaluation or use of a new technology. Laureate of 2014 are Prof. György Ferenczy and Prof. [...]
Quantum chemistry has become an essential tool of the results of the Academy’s research
Mayer István: CHARGE, BOND ORDER AND VALENCE IN THE AB INITIO SCF THEORY; Chemical Physics Letters; 1983 This paper represented an important step forward in a project on which I have been working for decades: finding proper connections between the physical and the chemical ways of describing molecular systems. In [...]
New Members from Hungary in Academia Europaea
Péter Tompa, professor of the Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Institute of Enzymology) was elected a new member by Academia Europaea. Membership of Academia Europaea has been thus extended by seven Hungarian members - among them, three members and four D.Sc. of the Hungarian Academy of [...]
Synthetic or bio? Tracking down new materials
Biopolymers are in demand in the medical professions and the packaging industry due to reservations - often unjustified - about synthetics. Recent biopolymer findings and those on responsive materials, i.e., materials that respond rapidly to environmental changes, were summed up by the BiPoCo 2014 international scientific conference, of which one [...]
The role of intuition in chemical research – MTA researchers publishing in a prestigious professional journal
Miklós György Keserű, the director in chief of MTA Research Centre for Natural Sciences (TTK) and Tibor Soós, a Momentum team leader top the authors' list of the study published in Chemical Society Reviews using cognitive psychology to analyse how the intuition of researchers influences the development of synthetic chemistry. [...]