Dávid Bajusz graduated from the University of Debrecen as a chemist and obtained his PhD in chemistry from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. Since 2013 he has been working at the Medicinal Chemistry Research Group of the HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences, and has been a senior research fellow since 2023. His main research interests are medicinal chemistry, computational drug design and cheminformatics, in which he is involved in several international collaborations. In his research on medicinal chemistry, he has identified novel bioactive compounds for a number of therapeutic targets, mostly in oncological diseases and COVID-19 infection. His achievements have been recognized with the Junior Prima Prize in 2019, the Bárány Róbert Prize in 2022 and the Young Scientist Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2024. He has co-authored more than 60 scientific publications and three book chapters in major reference works, which have altogether been cited more than 2500 times. In addition to his research, he participates in the education of young researchers, being a thesis supervisor at PhD, MSc and BSc levels, and is involved in the organization and management of international conferences and awareness-raising events. He is a recipient of the Bolyai János Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences between 2020–2023 and from 2024. His research, funded by the National Research Development and Innovation Office (NRDIO), focuses on the development of computational drug design methods that significantly accelerate the exploration of the exponentially growing chemical space, and thus the discovery of chemical starting points that form the basis for drug development.
