Participating in hackathons helps students consolidate their knowledge in practice, motivates them to work in teams, and to assess their contribution to a common goal.
Tarass Ivaščenko will defend his doctoral dissertation on 23 January at 15:00 in an open meeting of the RSU Clinical Medicine Degree Committee online. His dissertation is titled 'GPx and MDA Oxidative Stress Markers and Severity of Depression as Predictives of Recurrent Stable Coronary Heart Disease'.
Official reviewers
- Dr. med., Asst. Prof. Kristīne Jubele, Rīga Stradiņš University
- Dr. med., prof. Dainis Krieviņš, University of Latvia
- Dr. med., prof. Arūnas Savickas, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences
On 17 October 2022, the Chapter of Orders appointed Ilze Bārene, Professor Emeritus at the Department of Applied Pharmacy, Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) Faculty of Pharmacy, as Commander of the Cross of Recognition. She has been working at RSU since February 1971.
On 17 December, a decisive match between two teams from Riga took place at the Rimi Olympic Centre. The Riga Volleyball School/LU team and the Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU)/MSG took to the court for the 2022 Cewood Latvian Volleyball Cup.
Taka Tanabe is a 4th year medical student at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU). His mother is from Sri Lanka and his dad is from Japan. Taka was born and raised in the capital of Sri Lanka, Colombo, where he lived for 18 years before moving to Vietnam with his parents. They lived there for 1,5 years before Taka came to Riga to study.
| Target audience | Paediatricians, general practitioners and other interested parties |
|---|---|
| Language | Latvian, English |
| Fee | 15 EUR |
| Conference Leader | Prof. |
The tax system is one of the crucial elements affecting the viability of the state. Alexey Leontyev, a PhD candidate at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) is proposing an integrated approach to the taxation optimisation in his research.
It should be noted that economic science does not have answers to all questions – just like doctors are as yet still unable to treat all diseases. However, both medicine and economics continue to improve steadily.
The Robert Blumberg 2022 Distinction Lecture in Cognitive Science will be delivered by Prof. Emily K Farran on 16 January at 13:00 at the Riga Bourse Art Museum (Doma laukums 6) and online.

On 17 October 2022, the Chapter of Orders appointed Mārtiņš Malzubris, a lecturer at the Department of Orthopaedics at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) Faculty of Medicine, as an Officer of the Order of the Three Stars. He is also an orthopaedic traumatologist and the Head of the Traumatology Centre at the Hospital of Traumatology and Orthopaedics in Riga.
Every year, around 120 students from Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) travel to one of 150 Erasmus+ partner universities. Their experiences are no longer just social media posts or conversations with friends and family, but are also compiled on a single platform, the university's Student Mobility Experience website.






