Roland Sipos is a practical man with both feet firmly on the ground. His dedication to large animal medicine is clearly shown by the fact that he already has five heifers in his farm back in his Somogy County home.

Ever since her childhood, 11th-semester veterinary student Alexandra Ruff has always wanted to be a vet. However, when instructors asked their students what areas or what animal species they would like to specialize in, she never raised her hand.

Pharmacology and toxicology are two major pillars of veterinary medicine. In his interview for our magazine, the head of the Pharmacology and Toxicology Institute and acting Vice-Rector for Science and Research Dr Ákos Jerzsele told us that without drugs, we would never be able to provide the kind of medical service we can offer today.

Dr Sándor Hornok, the head of the Department of Parasitology and Zoology is in cooperation with researchers from 30 countries and has translated and edited nine esoteric books, most of which are related to the Buddhist religion and ideology.

As senior advisor to the rector, honorary associate professor and doctor of veterinary medicine, Professor dr Miklós Süth has received two main tasks: first to facilitate the American accreditation of the educational programmes of the University of Veterinary Medicine, Budapest; and second, to provide food chain safety with a stronger emphasis in veterinary education programs.

Chair of the Department of Comparative Medicine at Yale University and research professor of the Anatomy Department at the University of Veterinary Sciences in Budapest, Professor Tamás Horváth was born in Nagykőrös, Hungary in 1967.

We had managed to choose perfect timing to sit down for an interview with Milan Kondor who has since been conferred the doctor’s degree.