HUN-REN Természettudományi Kutatóközpont

Mission & Goals

HUN-REN RCNS is an organizational unit of HUN-REN Hungarian Research Network (a legal entity performing a public service function with a special legal status) and has a legal personality of its own. As a non-profit organizational unit of HUN-REN, RCNS qualifies as a research institution (a research and knowledge dissemination organization), conducting multidisciplinary research in the natural sciences, including both the life sciences and the physical sciences. With extensive R&D connections, our research centre is highly engaged in the training of young scientists through holding lectures, supervising PhD students and organizing summer events, conferences. HUN-REN TTK acts as a catalyst for researcher mobility, sharing research infrastructure and multidisciplinary research thanks to its extended international collaborations. HUN-REN TTK as a consortium leader coordinates the work of the National Laboratory of Drug Research and Development.