Szent-Györgyi won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937 for isolating vitamin C and for his research on the Krebs cycle. He taught at the University of Szeged, was dean of the Faculty of Medicine and also served as the school?s rector.
Nine Nobel Prize-winners have accepted invitations to the conference as the result of intense efforts by the organisers and university staff, said conference chairman Prof. László Vécsei M.D., who is the dead of the Faculty of Medicine.
Altogether 412 presentations are on the four-day programme, said conference secretary Dr. Péter Hegyi. Sections will be held on cardiology, gastroenterology, neuroscience, immunology and inflammation, molecular biology and genetics, and the evolution of tuberculosis, he added.
Almost a thousand prominent researchers will participate at the plenary meetings. Among them will be nine Nobel Prize winners: Andrew W. Schally, who won the prize in 1977, Bert Sakmann (1991), Eric Wieschaus (1995), Peter C. Doherty (1996), Tim Hunt (2001), Ada E. Yonath (2009), Aaron Ciechanover (2004), John E. Walker (1997) and Robert Huber (1988).
Conference-goers will be treated to a rich cultural offering too: concerts by the organist Xavér Varnus and the pianist Csilla Szentpéteri are planned, as are performances by the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble Orchestra, the Danube Art Ensemble, and the Szeged Dance Ensemble with folk diva Márta Sebestyén.
