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More than a thousand participants from 30 countries have arrived in Szeged, said university rector Gábor Szabó.
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.
Conference chairman Prof. László Vécsei M.D., who is the dead of the Faculty of Medicine, said that most of the work for which Szent-Györgyi won the prize was undertaken at the university.
The four-day conference features sections on cardiology, gastroenterology, neuroscience, immunology and inflammation, molecular biology and genetics, and the evolution of tuberculosis.
Among the conference-goers are 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.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
