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Lecture by Professor Tamas Bartfai (USA) takes place at University of Tartu Assembly Hall on 25 November 2015 at 16:00.

University of Tartu Professor emerita Heidi-Ingrid Maaroos is the first Estonian to receive the prestigious Marshall&Warren medal in recognition of her international research in the field of gastroenterology and the helicobacter.

The 9th international Baltic sports medicine conference takes place in Tartu from 20 to 23 August and it discusses the health problems of young, professional, female and amateur athletes. This conference focuses more on overuse injuries of children and adolescents. “This year’s conference focuses on overuse injuries of children and adolescents because they are the future of our sports,” said one of the organisers of the conference, Head of the UT Department of Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Eve Unt.

On 16 June, the title of visiting professor at Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Vietnam was given to Katre Maasalu, Associate Professor of orthopaedics at the University of Tartu’s Faculty of Medicine, for long–term successful international cooperation. The same title has also been given to Professor Sulev Kõks and Associate Professor Aare Märtson.

The international consultation company Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) published its QS World University Rankings by Subject 2015, which ranks the world’s universities in 36 subjects. The University of Tartu is represented in the ranking list with five subjects. The UT has the highest position in communication and media studies (101–150), in which it is ranked for the third year already. This is followed by philosophy (151–200), English language and literature (201–250), modern languages (251–300) and medicine (301–350).

On 27 March, the University of Tartu and AS Tere extended their licence agreement for the next ten years. On the basis of the agreement, the University of Tartu allows AS Tere to continue using the Lactobacillus fermentum ME-3 discovered by the UT researchers in the production and marketing of dairy products in Estonia and 12 other European countries.

The European Commission supports the TransGeno project of UT researchers with 2.5 million euros. This support helps to recruit top researchers to work at the ERA Chair of Translational Genomics of the University of Tartu soon to be created. The research work done at the new chair will advance research in translational genomics, so that in the future, doctors would be able to diagnose diseases as early as possible, thus improving opportunities for treatment.

On 12–14 December, Professor Eric Lander, the President and Founding Director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and co-chair of US President Barack Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, and his colleagues will visit Estonia. On 12 December at 16:30, Professor Lander will give a public lecture at the UT Estonian Genome Center (Riia 23B) entitled “Genetic Basis of Human Disease: The past and future of genomic medicine”.

In the recognition of a long-lasting successful research cooperation between the researchers of the University of Tartu and Vietnam, Professor of the University of Tartu Sulev Kõks was given the title of a visiting professor of Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Vietnam.

After a Europe-wide competition, the European Society for Vascular Surgery awarded its 20,400-euro research grant for research in vascular surgery to the vascular surgeon and Senior Research Fellow in Medical Biochemistry of the UT Jaak Kals.

On 14 August, members of the American College of Surgeons visited Maarjamõisa Medical Campus of Tartu University Hospital bringing refresher training of Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) into Estonia. Introductory seminar of ATLS took place in the most modern centre of translational medicine in the Nordic Countries and Eastern Europe. The representatives of the American College of Surgeons also familiarized themselves with the infrastructure of the centre.

The graduation ceremony of the Faculty of Medicine will take placeon 20th of June at 12 in the Assembly Hall