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At the May congress of the European Atherosclerosis Society (EAS) in Athens, two significant consensus documents were presented, to which Tomáš Freiberger of the Department of Clinical Immunology and Allergology and the Center for Cardiovascular and Transplant Surgery in Brno contributed as an author. Both documents provide important updates in the field of prevention and treatment of lipid metabolism disorders and are already generating significant attention from both the professional community and the media.

The course is intended (not only) for doctoral students who are considering a career outside academia. 

In 2025, the Faculty of Medicine and Masaryk University as a whole underwent its second national evaluation of higher education institutions. The Czech Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports has now published the evaluation results compiled by international evaluators. Both the faculty and the university received an overall grade of A, meaning “excellent.” This confirms our position among the leaders in Czech biomedical research.

He arrived in Brno from Spain as an intern and is leaving as a PhD graduate and award-winning scientist. During his time at our faculty, Marcos González López gained recognition for his research on stem cells, tooth growth, and tooth regeneration. In this interview, he discusses his scientific journey, life in Brno, the importance of science communication, and why understanding the loss of tooth regeneration in humans is one of the most fascinating questions in contemporary biology.

The head of the Department of Medical Genetics and Genomics, who serves on the university’s leadership as vice-rector for research and doctoral studies and is also active researcher at CEITEC MU, was named by Forbes magazine to this year’s list of the most influential women in the Czech Republic. Alongside her, MU is also represented by Kateřina Šimáčková, a judge at the European Court of Human Rights and an academic at the Faculty of Law.

Here is a selection of the most interesting developments in science and research that took place at Faculty of Medicine in May.

On the first day of June, President Petr Pavel presented letters of appointment to 91 new professors. Among those appointed were Martin Fiala (Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiology, University Hospital Brno), Marek Joukal (Department of Anatomy), and Roman Panovský (First Department of Internal Medicine and Cardioangiology, St. Anne´s University Hospital).

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