Introduction

Last modified: 11. April 2024

The Institute of Animal Physiology and Nutrition (IAPN) has multi-campus organisation and conducts teaching and research activities in the framework of four departments, at three different sites. Successful co-operation within the Institute stems from the multi-decade personal and professional relations based on scientific work and professional-public activities conducted in the same fields.

The Institute is responsible for the teaching of the disciplines animal physiology, animal health, animal hygiene and animal nutrition on pan-university level and on all levels of training (high-level vocational training, BSc, MSc, postgraduate specialist training and PhD/doctoral training), thus strengthening the synergy between related institutes and specialisations. The Institute is authorised with the task of conducting the master (MSc) training for the specialty Animal Nutrition and Feed Safety Engineering. The objective of this specialty is to train animal nutrition and feed safety specialists who have up-to-date and comprehensive knowledge in the special fields of animal nutrition and feed management, and are prepared for performing engineering-level planning and management tasks in the product development, product manufacturing, economic, environmental protection and quality assurance fields of the entire animal nutrition and feed management industry.

We are conducting multidisciplinary research activity in special fields that have outstanding strategic role in the Hungarian and international agricultural sector, such as feed and food safety, ‘One Health’, precision animal nutrition.

The HUN-REN-MATE Mycotoxins in the Food Chain Research Group is operating in the framework of the Department of Animal Physiology and Health together with Feed Safety Department, with priority earmarked subsidy received from the Hungarian Research Network (HUN-REN). The Research Group has been working on exploring the individual and combined health-damaging effects of certain mycotoxins for more than two decades.

With its staff of 55 members, the Institute is the biggest Hungarian teaching and research base of animal nutrition and nutritional physiology in Hungary, with wide-ranging domestic and international relations and massive roots in Hungarian and international scientific and professional public life.

Our mission: To operate as a multidisciplinary teaching, research, development and innovation knowledge centre of international radiance in animal physiology, farm animal nutrition and the related fields, thus supporting industrial, economic and social innovation.

Origanization of the Institute

Kaposvár Campus

Institute center, secretariat
Department of Animal Physiology and Health

• One Health Research Group
• HUN-REN-MATE Mycotoxins in the Food Chain Research Group

Department of Farm Animal Nutrition

Szent István Campus, Gödöllő

Department of Feed Safety

Georgikon Campus, Keszthely

Department of Nutrition and Nutritional Physiology (Keszthely)​​​​​​