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"Go to Pelhřimov, see the crematorium, so you know what you're getting into." When Rudolf Hrušínský, as Dr. Skružný in the comedy Vesničko má středisková, gave the advice that became one of the most famous lines in Czech cinema, perhaps only Jiří Lír, who played the innkeeper Bedřich, knew that there was no crematorium in his hometown. However, at the time the film was made, in the mid-1980s, there was already a well-equipped hospital in the district town, which MUDr. Karel Kalla Jr. helped to develop from his position as head of the Clinical Biochemistry Department and later as director. The second of the medical family whose indelible Pelhřimov trace comes from Blansko. It left its imprint not only within the hospital walls and in the structures of the Czech Society of Clinical Biochemistry, of which MUDr. Kalla was the chairman, but also on the football field. And expressed in the name of the Pelhřimov FC, the medical marathon of the Kalla family will continue for some time.

How fast do teeth grow? What influences their growth? What do mouse teeth have in common with human teeth? And why is their research important? There is no one more qualified to answer these questions than Associate Professor Jan Křivánek.

There are reasons to celebrate during the holidays, and at SIMU they celebrated twice: They have had 1000 days of operation of the centre, where they welcomed the 1000th participant of postgraduate courses at SIMU. It was MUDr. Lukáš Homola from the Brno University Hospital, who was asked several questions.

How fast teeth grow, what influences their growth dynamics and how dental tissues regenerate. All this can be monitored in detail by a new monitoring method developed by the research group of Assoc. Mgr. Jan Křivánek, Ph.D. at the Faculty of Medicine of Masaryk University. It can be used in regenerative medicine, in testing new approaches in wound healing or in monitoring developmental defects of bones and teeth. The importance of Křivánek's work is underlined by its publication in the prestigious scientific journal Science Advances.

MUDr. Vladimír Leman graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of Masaryk University in 1957. Although a native of Brno, he spent his personal and professional life in Pelhřimov. He continues to come to the local hospital to examine patients even at the age of ninety, making him perhaps the oldest serving physician in the Czech Republic.

Masaryk University has joined the European Erasmus+ project called ETHICS, which aims to improve the quality of research in Georgia by introducing standards of research ethics and integrity according to good practice in the EU. Together with three other European partners, we share our experience in the field of research ethics with the Georgian partners of the project, which are 10 Georgian universities and 3 state institutions. The project is managed by Ilya State University of Georgia.

Join the pilot course of the CONSCIOUS II project, the project is implemented by the Department of Pharmacology of the Faculty of Medicine of Masaryk University together with five partner universities from Portugal, Ireland, France, and Hungary within the ERASMUS+ programme. The aim is to create a comprehensive, practice-oriented training programme focusing on the critical aspects of a clinical trial from A to Z, i.e., design through conduct and management to publication and presentation of results.

Not only our two students of Nutritional Therapy at the Faculty of Medicine Tamara Miškufová and Michaela Štejdířová are convinced of this. Both of them participated in the Special Olympics, which took place this year in Berlin. In order to participate as volunteers in the Games, they had to go through a selection process and then complete online training for working with athletes.

Less than three years after the start of teaching in the simulation centre, the FM MU Simulation Centre was accredited by the European Society for Simulation in Medicine (SESAM) in May. SIMU is now one of 12 fully accredited centres in the world. This award was received by SIMU representatives at the SESAM conference in Lisbon, Portugal, in June. Among other things, they presented a unique training programme for student lecturers in first aid.

In the prestigious international QS World University Rankings, which were published on 27 June 2023, Masaryk University achieved a historic success by being ranked among the top 400 universities in the world.