The first distinguished event of the Szent-Györgyi Memorial Year was the conference in March featuring nine Nobel prize winners, and as the year is coming to an end, the investiture of honorary degrees is also an international event - said the rector.

The Nobel-winner Albert Szent-Györgyi, one-time rector of the University of Szeged was commemorated with a short documentary. This was followed by the investiture ceremony.

Upon the recommendation of the Faculty of Dentistry Prof. Dr. mult. Ulrich Joos (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster) was awarded the title Doctor Honoris Causa.

Prof.Dr.mult. Ulrich Joos has been the head of the Department of Oral and Cranio-maxillofacial and Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster for 20 years now. Since 2006, he has also been the head of the Dental School at the same university. Professor Joos is an authority of international reputation on the developmental disorders of the cranio-maxillofacial area. He is a member of several European and international scientific associations, among others, he used to be the president of the European Association for Cranio-maxillofacial Surgery.

Professor Joos cherishes a decade-long professional relationship to Hungary, for instance, he offered his generous help with the procurement of instruments when the Faculty of Dentistry in Szeged was funded. As a guest lecturer he actively participates in the undergraduate and postgraduate educational activity of the faculty. Thanks to the strong ties between the Professor and the Faculty of Dentistry of our University, the University of Szeged has got the chance to become part of an association of universities, which operates 4 master programmes in oral medicine internationally, by which the international appreciation and good reputation of our university has certainly increased.

Professor Joos also keeps up an ongoing scientific and educational relationship with the Department of Cranio-maxillofacial and Oral Surgery of the Faculty of Medicine, where he regularly appears as a guest lecturer at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

The 21 publications that have appeared in common effort during the years mark both the success of the intense collaboration between the Professor and our two Faculties and also the success of the collaboration between the Universities of Münster and Szeged.

The title ’Doctor Honoris Causa’ expresses our gratitude and appreciation toward this man of distinguished scientific merits and exceptional personality.

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