RW2023 keynote speaker Dr. biol. Janet Kelso on the genomes of our extinct ancestors, the role of bioinformatics, and the excitement of experiencing a revolution in sequencing technology.
Before starting to work with real patients in a real hospital, prospective doctors at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) in their third year of studies complete a nursing placement in a specially equipped simulated hospital. The hospital is equipped with models, mannequins, simulators, and actors playing patients. The two-week project involves working in the simulated department of internal diseases and then in the department of surgery.
With the deadline for abstract submissions to RSU Research Week 2023 fast approaching (20 January 23:59 Rīga time), we decided to take a look at the gems that have already been submitted and highlight some of the titles that we found particularly intriguing.
This year will be the sixth time that the Ministry of Education and Science is organising a special exhibition and publishing a calendar to promote scientists and their achievements. The exhibition and calendar tell the story of Latvian researchers, both locally and in the diaspora who come from different generations, branches of science, and different research institutions. Taken together, they showcase the strength and diversity of Latvian science.
This study aims to investigate changes in oxidative stress biomarker levels and their possible correlation with depression and the risk of recurrent coronary heart disease.
Pulmonary arterial hypertension is a rare, progressive, and chronic life-threatening disease. The initial symptoms are non-specific and induced by exertion – shortness of breath, excessive fatigue and weakness, chest pain, loss of consciousness.
China's economic, military, and political power has grown rapidly in recent decades. The superpower's influence has reached out to regions with minimal or no prior cooperation. Baltic-Chinese relations have experienced ups and downs over the past 30 years. Most controversies have arisen surrounding Taiwan, the Dalai Lama, and Russia. The positive factors have largely been limited to unfulfilled expectations of greater economic cooperation.
The Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) Department of Paediatric Surgery and the Centre for Educational Growth invite anyone who's interested to learn about surgical diseases of the urogenital system in children of different ages to an online lecture and discussion.
Many departments at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) worked so selflessly and diligently under the stressful and unusual conditions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic that they not only maintained, but also raised the bar at RSU. The University’s management therefore decided to award two Certificates of Recognition this autumn in addition to the award for Structural Unit of the Year.
