Our institute was represented by 5 Scientific Students' Association (TDK) and PhD students, along with 1 lecturer, delivering presentations and poster sessions in Vienna at the 24th International Symposium and Summer School on Bioanalysis CEEPUS conference. Among our students, Barnabás Tóth received the "Outstanding Poster Award". The Semmelweis University delegation was led by our colleague Jolán Hársfalvi, the university's CEEPUS coordinator, who also presented at the event.

Presentations from our institute:

• Kira Dakos, Éva Gráczer, Tamás Bozó, Katalin Pászty, Nataliya Di Donato, Miklós Kellermayer, Andrea Varga: Non-muscle actinopathy-associated loss of function variants of actin modulate the reorganization properties of the actin cytoskeleton

• Fruzsina Sótér, Tamás Bozó, Miklós S. Z. Kellermayer: Investigating the catalytic and size-modulating effects of ethanol on cochleate drug delivery vehicles

• Kolos Kelemen, Jolan Harsfalvi: Analysis of von Willebrand Factor Multimer Distribution

• Barnabás Tóth, László Forgách, Imre Hegedüs, Domokos Máthé, Krisztián Szigeti: A low-cost magnetic separation platform for reproducible nanoparticle characterization

• Jolán Hársfalvi: Biophysical characterization of clot retraction in platelet rich plasma of patients with primary anti-phospholipid syndrome

We warmly congratulate all our colleagues on their successful participation!

CEEPUS (Central European Exchange Program for University Studies) is a Central European higher education exchange program aimed at promoting scientific cooperation among universities, as well as student and faculty mobility in the region. The international network "Teaching and Learning Bioanalysis" operating within the program pays special attention to the training of future generations of researchers, providing a regular professional forum to share the latest bioanalytical procedures, instrumental analytics, and biophysical methods.

The most important annual event of this inter-institutional collaboration is the International Symposium and Summer School on Bioanalysis, whose 24th session was hosted by the Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Vienna (Universität Wien) in July 2026. The event serves simultaneously as a high-level international scientific conference and a summer school, gathering over one hundred and seventy recognized lecturers, PhD students, and graduates from 11 Central and Eastern European countries. In addition to theoretical and practical lectures within the dense professional program, students have the opportunity to present their own research results through poster presentations and oral student lectures in front of an international jury, thereby establishing the foundation for their future scientific careers and international connections.