Academy-Patent Award 2008
Dr. György Kalaus
Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, researching professor, head of the Research Group of Alkaloid Chemistry of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, for his work focused on working out the effective agent of Cavinton, a medicine that has been traded for three decades and that has achieved outstanding therapeutic and economic results, as well as for his numerous other activities carried out in order to develop a protected patent that is widely used in the area of medical chemistry and that has also stood the test of international weighing.
Dr. György Marosi
Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, professor of the faculty of Organic Chemical Technology of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, for the development that he has carried out at a high level in the pharmaceutical industry, in addition to his university educational activities, for his major participation in elaborating new technologies, as well as for his inventions realised in new technological solutions in the field of combustion-stored polymer composites and nano-medicine, which have also won several patents.
Dr. Károly Reményi
A regular member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, for his patent worked out with co-authors under the title "Hybrid-fluidisation heating system". The importance of the procedure is that the procedure described in the patent helps to solve, as well as to significantly mitigate, the problems concerning the stability of heating, the emission of harmful materials and the change in the quality of heating materials. The patent has contributed to the increase of the effectiveness of research and development activities in one of the major sectors of energy production, as well as to the utilisation of the established innovation potentials.