Awards of Egon and Ann Diczfalusy Foundation
Diczfalusy Award Lecture (DAL)
The aim of the “Egon & Ann Diczfalusy Foundation” is to support research in reproductive health, provide updated knowledge to Obstetricians-Gynaecologists and strengthen collaboration and friendship between clinicians and researchers in the Central-European Region.
It also supports the training of physicians and healthcare workers by organising scientific events, and helps young professionals to meet and gain knowledge from their most experienced colleagues.
To foster its aims, every year the Foundation organises an Annual Meeting with a Diczfalusy Award Lecture (DAL) Symposium on Reproductive Health. Besides a high-level scientific program with the best speakers and international participation at these meeting two prizes are handed over.
The Foundation grants yearly awards to encourage young research fellows doing research in the female healthcare arena and also a lifetime award for senior researchers from all over the world for their lifetime achievements on the field.
Young Scientist Award
The Prize consists of a bronze medal and is granted annually to an internationally acknowledged young investigator, for her/his achievements in improving Reproductive Health.
One side of the medal depicts a mother with her child and Professor Diczfalusy’s Life-Motto:
“Empathy, Science and Hope.”
The other side shows the Dom square of the city of Szeged, with the Votive Church and the Institute of Microbiology of the University, with a Latin phrase frequently quoted by Diczfalusy:
“Medicina Anchora Salutis.”


Awardees in the history of the “Young Scientist Award”
- 2019 Dan Andrei Dumitrașcu-Biriș (UK)
- 2018 Michael Feichtinger (Austria)
- 2017 Aleksandra Vejnović (Serbia)
- 2016 Nicolae Bacalbașa (Romania)
- 2015 Gyula Richárd Nagy (Hungary)
- 2014 Salvatore Gizzo (Italy)
- 2013 Silvia Visentin (Italy)
- 2012 Attila Molvarec (Hungary)
- 2011 Dunja Lončar (Serbia)
- 2011 Cristian Furău (Romania)
- 2010 Signe Altmäe (Sweden)
- 2009 Claudiu Avram (Romania)
- 2008 Eszter Ducza (Hungary)
- 2007 María Natalia Cruz (Sweden)
The Diczfalusy Award
The Prize consists of a small-scale version of the original statue of the Hungarian artist Klára Tóbiás, called the „Hungarian Pieta 1956”. It acknowledges the lifetime achievements of a scientist in the field of research in Reproductive Health.
Awardees in the history of the “Lifetime Scientific Achievement Award”
- 2019 Frederick Chung Wei Wu (UK)
- 2017 Marius Craina (Romania)
- 2016 Erik Bogsch (Hungary)
- 2016 Giuseppe Benagiano (Italy)
- 2015 Gyula Telegdy (Hungary)
- 2014 Ilpo Huhtaniemi (Finland)
- 2013 Marc Bygdeman (Sweden)
- 2012 Badri Saxena (India)
- 2011 Biran Affandi (Indonesia)
- 2010 David F. Archer (USA)
- 2009 Mahmoud Fathalla (Egypt)
- 2008 Britt-Marie Landgren (Sweden)
- 2007 Salvatore Mancuso (Italy)