Even if you remain a researcher, your career can take many different paths. One, but by no means the only, measure of success is the attainment of academic degrees, the highest of which is the non-tenure-track academic degree. 

The history of Budapest's seventh district officially begins in 1873, and the past 150 years have been as full of events as the district itself has been full of residents. But we would now like to draw attention to an event of importance to us today, the Korányi Forum, held annually in the Hársfa Street building of the Frigyes Korányi College of Semmelweis University. 

The latest article from Ádám Dénes' group was published in Nature Neuroscience, the leading journal in neuroscience research. This should be a cause for celebration, as it is no mean feat to publish in this journal, and why shouldn't the team be happy that their paper has received a lot of press coverage. But the point is not only more than that, it is much more important: their findings may in the future offer the possibility of improving the quality of life of people living with long-COVID syndrome and, what is more, of better understanding neurodegenerative diseases.

Between 2005 and 2020, 17 of our staff have won the Academy's Youth Prize, which is a very impressive achievement. However, after Andris Szőnyi was honoured, there was a longer break until 21 February 2025. 

Susanne Prokop received the award with a certificate and a cash prize in the conference room of the MTA Library and Information Centre, and on behalf of our institute and its management, we would like to congratulate her! 

The facts don't change what we think about them, but our lives are very much influenced by what is generally accepted in the treatment of, for example, a disease. Millions of lives and quality of life are affected if experimental results and observations show that we need to think differently, that we need a paradigm shift. This is what is happening now with thyroid hormone, with the active involvement of Balázs Gereben and his team.

Their discovery was published in the journal PNAS.