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The Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of Masaryk University visited a truly unusual audience.

The four-year term of office of the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine Prof. Martin Repko, Ph.D. ends in the autumn of this year. In February, the Academic Senate of the Faculty of Medicine decided to announce the election of a candidate for the position of Dean of the Faculty. The new dean should lead the faculty in the period from 1 November 2023 to 31 October 2027.

The Indian Community of the Czech Republic is inviting everyone living in Brno to the Festival of Colors (Holi) on 18 March at Semilasso, the biggest-ever venue for the festival in Brno.

In this year's election of the Academician of the Year in the eyes of students in the clinical part of teaching, the title of the most popular teacher was awarded to Assoc. Prof. PhDr. Miroslav Světlák, Ph.D., Head of the Department of Medical Psychology and Psychosomatics, and the title from the preclinical part of teaching went to Assoc. Prof. MUDr. Leoš Křen, Ph.D., who is the head of the Department of Pathology at the University Hospital Brno and the Faculty of Medicine of Masaryk University in Brno.

Some of the roughly 7,000 described rare diseases affect about 5% of the population. In the Czech Republic, estimates speak of between 350 and 600 thousand patients who face a not very widespread but often serious diagnosis. For now, a team of scientists from the Masaryk University Faculty of Medicine is bringing them at least hope by developing drugs under a project that is unparalleled in the Central European region.

The Masaryk University Institute of Computer Science primarily targets employees and their experience with multi-factor authentication to make the university's cyber environment as secure as possible. In the future, it is likely that this multi-factor authentication will be mandatory for logging into selected services and systems. Please take about 7 minutes of your time to complete the survey and you can be part of the testing.

International Epilepsy Day falls on the second Monday in February every year. We talked to Professor Milan Brázdil, Head of the First Neurological Clinic at St. Anne's University Hospital in Brno and Masaryk University Faculty of Medicine, about the disease, which affects 70-100 thousand patients in the Czech Republic.

The aim of this survey is to identify the main barriers and motivators to participation in studies of COVID-19 or other vaccines among European adults. The survey consists of a ten-minute anonymous online questionnaire.

Associate Professor Demlová, Head of the Department of Pharmacology FM MU and Principal Investigator of CZECRIN, was elected Vice-Chair of the ECRIN Network Committee on the occasion of the ECRIN-ERIC Network Committee meeting.

The Department of Neurosurgery of the Brno University Hospital and Faculty of Medicine of Masaryk University celebrates thirty years since its foundation. For more than half of this time, it has been managed by Professor Martin Smrčka, who in 2005 succeeded his father, Vladimír Smrčka, who was the head for the previous nine years. In addition, Martin Smrčka has served as President of the Czech Neurosurgical Society for the past four years and is still active as a trainer and lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine of Masaryk University. So who else to go to if you want to look back at the history of neurosurgery in Brno and uncover the challenges that lie ahead in the upcoming years?