Professor of pathology, meat-inspection, internal medicine, epidemiology, and forensic veterinary medicine.

His scientific interest was primarily focused on epidemic animal diseases. He created a simultaneous vaccination process as prevention against classical swine fever. He was also examining how to evaluate tuberculin and Mallein tests.

His work ’Veterinary Internal Medicine’, co-authored with József Marek, was published several times in different languages. It was a defining textbook of the period.

He was the director of this institution for over 34 years; under his leadership, it became a university college. Ferenc Hutyra was an ordinary, later honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.