15th November 2016
Some images of the 2016. Award Ceremony:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BzRerUt7ZVRNdzg2czBhZmlrZEU
15th June 2016
Congratulations to Gergo Gogl for winning the Bio-Science Award.
http://bio-science.hu/hirek/hirek-2/92-blog-article-8
6th January 2016
13th November 2015
The Stephen W. Kuffler Research Scholarship award ceremony took place in the main building of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
15th July 2015
Anna Molnár (Loránd Eötvös University) one of the
winners of the Kuffler Fellowship in 2014 won three prestigious prizes in the XXXII.
National Scientific Conference for
Undergraduates.
Besides her second prize in molecular biology and her first prize in human
genetics, Anna was awarded a Special prize of the Society of Gold Medalists of ‘Pro
Scientia’.
29th December 2014
The award ceremony of the Foundation took place on the 9th of December in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest. The four undergraduate awardees, Péter Dancs and Csilla Karóczi (Semmelweis University) Márton Mayer (Szent István University) and Anna Molnár (Loránd Eötvös University) gave short talks about the research programmes in which they made contributions. The highlight of the event was the keynote lecture of professor John Nicholls (SISSA, Trieste, Italy) “Contributions of basic science to clinical neurology”. Nicholls showed how the identification of GABA and its action in Kuffler’s lab led to the many treatments that are based on the action of this common neurotransmitter. He also gave a vivid description of how Kuffler’s discovery of the contrast opponent receptive field structure of retinal ganglion cells guided Torsten Wiesel and David Hubel in their Nobel Award winning discoveries, including the development of the visual cortex; the latter changed the treatment of childhood vision disorders. Nicholls was introduced by Peter Somogyi, chair of the Founding Members. Nicholls worked closely with Kuffler and their textbook “From Neuron to Brain” is in its fifth edition. After the Award Ceremony professor Zoltan Nusser chair of the Trustees gave a reception for the awardees, sponsors, teachers and students. The Vice President of the Academy professor Tamas Freund was also present.
24th March 2014
The Stephen W. Kuffler Research Scholarship award ceremony took place in the main building of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
20th November 2013
The Trustees of the Foundation have received 133
applications from five countries for the Stephen W. Kuffler Research Scholarship.
The review of the applications is in progress. Decisions will be made by 15th
December 2013 and the names of the winners will be displayed on the web site of
the Foundation.
1st November 2013
Centennial symposium on S. W. Kuffler’s
life and work
On 31st
October, at the 100th anniversary of his birth friends, colleagues and former
pupils held symposium on the life and work of Sephen W. Kuffler. The meeting
was organized by the Rockefeller and Columbia Universities, in New York. Areas
covered by the lectures illustrated Kuffler’s great versatility in his
research. Pupils and younger colleagues, who are leaders in their field on
their own right, demonstrated his excellence in education.
The S.W.
Kuffler Research Foundation was represented by Professor Peter Somogyi, who in
his dinner address informed the participants on the brief history and current
activity of the Foundation.