Prof. Balázs Rózsa, founder and director of BrainVisionCenter (BVC), discusses the institute’s scientific achievements, pioneering brain imaging technologies and future research directions in an in-depth interview with Qubit.

The interview highlights BVC’s progress in epilepsy therapy and cortical vision restoration, two research areas currently closest to clinical application, as well as advances in Alzheimer’s research and potential collaborations with pharmaceutical companies.

Prof. Rózsa also shares insights into BVC’s interdisciplinary research model, where scientists, physicians, biologists, engineers and software developers work closely together to translate scientific discoveries into future medical applications.

Read the interview (in Hungarian) on Qubit:LINK

What does longevity really mean, and how can scientific advances help us live not only longer, but healthier lives?

In an interview published by the Hungarian science and knowledge portal Tudás.hu on 26 October 2026, Dr Zsófia Flóra Fedor, neurobiologist and Head of Department at BrainVisionCenter, discusses the importance of preventive healthcare, personalised medicine and the growing role of artificial intelligence in modern diagnostics.

The interview also highlights ongoing research at BrainVisionCenter, including the development of AI-assisted digital pathology technologies that could support more accurate disease detection and diagnostic processes.

As Dr Fedor emphasises, longevity is not about promising eternal life, but about using scientific progress to preserve our health, independence and quality of life for as long as possible.

Read the full interview (in Hungarian) on Tudás.hu:

https://tudas.hu/ne-csak-sokaig-hanem-egeszsegesen-eljunk-ebben-is-segithet-a-korszeru-diagnosztika/

How can young researchers be encouraged to return home?
What scientific breakthroughs has our institute achieved at the intersection of medicine, physics, and mathematics?
Which of our technologies are capable of “reading” the activity of brain cells in real time?
What connects BrainVisionCenter with research collaborations involving Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, and universities in Shanghai and Hong Kong?
And what exactly is a “brain pacemaker”?

These and many other fascinating scientific questions were addressed by Balázs Rózsa, Scientific Director of our institute, in the Délelőtt program on Kossuth Radio in hungarian. language.

The interview can be listened to by clicking HERE. Balázs Rózsa’s segment can be heard between 01:26:12 and 01:51:24.

At the 2025 Science Expo, our research institute presented several scientific highlights to the public. In the M5 Novum program, one of our colleagues introduced compounds and chemical dyes used in brain research conducted with our 3D laser microscope.
The spectacular experiments performed with these substances attracted particular interest from younger audiences, contributing to increased engagement with science.

Click HERE to watch the full report.

Our company’s Scientific Director, Balázs Rózsa, gave his last interview before the holidays to Catholic Radio. On the program Kerengő, he spoke about many interesting topics—from how mice navigate to photographing Formula 1 race cars, from robot vacuum cleaners to The Matrix—and also revealed which 30-year-old scientific myth we managed to debunk with an experiment.

The interview can be heard at the following link, from 27:55.

Linda Judák and Balázs Rózsa present Moculus, in the Saturday Morning show on Kossuth Radio, within the “5 Minutes of Science” segment, a device, which was developed through the collaboration of BrainVisionCenter and HUN-REN Institute of Experimental Medicine.

This VR headset, optimized specifically for mice, opens up new horizons in brain function research and in the development of brain–computer interfaces aimed at restoring vision.

The interview can be heard at the following link, from 6:50 to 13:37.

We are proud to announce that Nature Methods, one of the world’s most prestigious life-science journals, has selected our article as one of the most significant studies of the year.
Publishing in Nature Methods represents the pinnacle of scientific achievement. The mission of NM is to support a wide range of innovative research methods for basic research across diverse fields of the biological sciences. Preparing studies that appear in this journal—and having them accepted by the editorial board—requires years of work.

Regarding our paper presenting the Moculus device, the journal highlights the following: one approach to studying rodent behavior involves the use of virtual reality, in which animals explore a virtual environment while walking on a treadmill. Moculus creates a virtual environment for rodents that resembles the VR goggles used by humans.

The article has received 434 citations and achieved a 5-year impact factor of 49.

Click HERE for the full article.

BrainVisionCenter was again represented with its own booth at the Science Expo in 2025. The event, held at the Millenáris, attracted several thousand visitors. In one section of our exhibition area, our colleagues demonstrated spectacular chemical experiments to the large audience—made up of many enthusiastic high school and young children.
We also demonstrated our widely-known device, called Moculus, for which we also provided a VR headset. With its help, interested visitors could experience the path of a mouse running inside the Moculus themselves.

The crew of TV2’s program Innovátor shot a report at the BVC station, which can be seen from 6:48 by clicking this link.

A long article has appeared on Index about Botond Roska and Balázs Rózsa, as well as the BVC they founded. It discusses exciting isues, as vision restoration, the globally unique brain research taking place in our institute, and the revolutionary new equipment required for this work, which is used at Harvard, Yale, Oxford, and nearly 200 other top universities and research institutes around the world.
Go to the original article: https://index.hu/gazdasag/2025/11/17/roska-botond-vaksag-gyogyitas-latas-egeszsegugy-nobel-dij-palkovics-laszlo/