On Tuesday, 3 November the Cabinet of Ministers decided to present Certificates of Appreciation to several professionals working in the cultural and public sector and public administration employees. Among them were two professors from Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) - Professor Ģirts Briģis and Professor Ludmila Vīksna.
The pre-incubation programme (PINK) implemented by the Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) B-Space Business Incubator was launched on 3 November. 70 future entrepreneurs will be participating in the first intake.
Kaspars Zaļais, the Manager of the B-Space Business Incubator: ‘We are pleased to see that students and RSU employees are interested in bringing their business ideas to life and that they wish to acquire entrepreneurial skills and knowledge - a must for every entrepreneur.
For the third year running, EIT Health organised the EIT Health RIS Innovation Call to support promising and innovative health care projects.
The EIT Health RIS Innovation Call has supported a start-up from Latvia for the last two years and 28 European consortia of health care innovators received support of two million euro in 2019–2020 as a result of the competition.
The Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) 24-hour Health Tech Hackathon was held online on 23 -24 October. More than 40 students from various Latvian universities formed nine teams and participated in creating innovative ideas. These included state-of-the-art technologies and innovative projects to improve the medical and health care sectors.
Rīga Stradiņš University (SU) invites you to participate in Research Week 2021 (RW2021) – a multidisciplinary biannual event comprised of a range of international research conferences on medicine, social sciences, public health issues and university teaching and learning designed to explore how excellent and relevant research is delivered at the University and beyond.
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and the difficulties it has caused around the world, Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) is successfully overcoming various difficulties and continuing its rapid development. This is attested by the improvement of the content and structure of the Medicine and Dentistry study programmes at RSU. As a result of the work that has been done and the changes that have been implemented, both study programmes are equal to study programmes at leading European universities.
A group of researchers from Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) and the University of Latvia (LU) invite all those involved in promotion of sexual and reproductive health, including students and researchers, to attend this online conference.
On 26 October, representatives of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development (VARAM) and Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) discussed the possibilities for cooperation in the introduction of new and modern approaches to medical data processing. Building on the objectives of the Digital Transformation Guidelines*, ways to promote the use of modern technologies and data in medicine will be sought together.
A while ago, Žaneta’s mother-in-law – although older, but otherwise perfectly healthy – collapsed suddenly in her apartment. A clot had entered the blood vessels in the brain, causing rapid cell death or, in short, a stroke. When her mother-in-law was discharged from the hospital and it became clear that she would be bedridden for the rest of her life, a desperate search for information began. What rehabilitation process should be used? How should the home environment be adapted? What benefits and social security is available?
The Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) Medical Education Technology Centre (METC) held their first international virtual clinical simulation in mid-October. During the virtual simulation students, residents and doctors from RSU, the University of Leicester (UK) and Yale Medical School (USA) played out a scenario to treat a six-year-old patient with pneumonia andsepsis, or blood poisoning, resulting in severe complications.
