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“To support education and research activities, the leaders of the University of Debrecen Faculty of Health Sciences and the “One Health” Institute opened a molecular microbiology laboratory at the Szolnok Campus of the University of Debrecen. The opening of the new unit will enable professionals working on campus to carry out research requiring laboratory capacity, and students will gain laboratory experience while preparing their theses,” unideb.hu reported.
Among other things, in the fields of antibiotic resistance and food safety, the UD Faculty of Health Sciences in Szolnok has trained dieticians and public health inspectors and students who are now gaining useful results. In addition, the unit is equipped with state-of-the-art equipment for nucleic acid measurement and will also be used for scientific activities related to pathogen and gene detection by microbiological methods, bacterial cultivation and antibiotic resistance.
Director of the “One Health” Institute of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Debrecen, Gábor Kardos emphasised that specialists teaching at the UD Szolnok Campus can now carry out laboratory work on site.
“Thanks to the laboratory, experts will no longer have to travel to Debrecen to carry out this research, but will be able to do it locally.”
“We also want to help teachers to become researchers, as this is the key to advancing their teaching careers. We also want students who are interested in science and the laboratory environment to have this kind of experience for their thesis or dissertation,” the Director said.
Marianna Móré, Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Debrecen, pointed out that they would like to organise scientific activities in the research unit in Szolnok, focusing on local conditions, so for example, they will also carry out studies on local wastewater and the water of the Tisza.
“It is very important that both teachers and students in all the faculty’s training places have the opportunity to get involved in scientific research.”
“So far, we have been working to create the ideal conditions for education in Szolnok and Nyíregyháza, and now we are taking this to a new level. The work in the laboratory can work in close cooperation with the “One Health” Institute, but also a little separately, in order to produce research results that can be fed back into the food industry. Microbiology is about everyday life, with water, environmental and food safety playing a key role. This development is definitely a niche, as there is no research on antibiotic resistance in this region and very few laboratories for microbiology research in the country,” the Head of the Faculty said.
The aim of the lab is also to produce studies and publications from the research results generated here, thus enabling the faculty’s specialists working at the Szolnok Campus to participate in international scientific work.
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