News

31 Mar

Dean Vetchý's Second Term

As of 1 April, the second term of re-elected Dean David Vetchý begins, making some minor changes to the leadership of the faculty. The Dean with his appointed Vice-deans will lead the faculty into the new term of 2025-2029. 

4 Dec 2024

David Vetchý to remain Dean of the faculty for a second term

The Faculty of Pharmacy will remain its current leadership in the next term 2025 - 2029. The Dean, Prof. PharmDr. Mgr. David Vetchý, Ph.D. received the maximum possible support of all senators in a secret ballot of the Academic Senate of the faculty on 4 December. All twenty members of the Senate who were present in person voted for the current Dean.

Congratulations to Professor Vetchý, we wish him a lot of strength and success for the next term!

17 Oct 2024

Core Facility Day 2024

On Wednesday 16 October, the first edition of the Core Facility Day Life Sciences 2024 took place at the CEITEC building in the Bohunice campus. The aim of the day-long conference, which welcomed all academic and non-academic staff from Masaryk University, as well as the public, was to present professional services, equipment and facilities that can be used for research activities.

MUNIPHARM talks | Erasmus students from Spain

In the latest MUNIPHARM talks episode, our student ambassador Martina sits down to chat with Jimena and Veronica, students from Spain who spent last year at our faculty within the Erasmus+ study programme.

15 Oct 2024

Matriculation ceremonies welcome new students into academic community

On Monday, 14 October, a Matriculation ceremony of first-year students was held in the large lecture hall of the Faculty of Pharmacy. There were three ceremonies during which almost two hundred students of the Czech and three dozen students of the English Master's degree programme Pharmacy, and nearly five dozen students of the Bachelor's programme Cosmetic products were formally accepted among the academic community. 

9 Oct 2024

Two of our leading scientists received the MU Silver Medal

On Tuesday 8 October, the Fait Gallery hosted the opening ceremony of the new academic year 2024/2025, which was marked by an evaluation of Masaryk University's success in international rankings, recognition of outstanding teachers and personalities associated with its development, as well as highlighting its reserves and shortcomings. A great honour for Faculty of Pharmacy was awarding of the MU Silveral Medal to two of our leading scientists, Prof. RNDr. Jozef Csöllei, CSc. and Prof. RNDr. Václav Suchý, DrSc., dr. h.c.

15 Sep 2024

Masaryk University cancels first week of classes

The new academic year at Masaryk University will start a week later. Students will go to school for the first time on Monday 23 September. The cancellation of the opening week of the semester, which was scheduled to start tomorrow at the Faculty of Pharmacy, was decided at an emergency meeting of the Rector's Board on Sunday, which is composed of, among others, the Deans of all the faculties.

24 Jul 2024

BioPharma Hub construction in progress

In July 2024 we went to see the Bohunice Campus where a brand new building of the Faculty of Pharmacy is being built. BioPharma Hub is a strategic project not only for the faculty, but also for the entire Masaryk University, the city of Brno and the entire South Moravian Region. Take a look at the video and photos to see how the whole construction is progressing and how much work has already been done. The big move is planned for July 2026. 

21 Jun 2024

Class of 2024 celebrated at the Graduation ceremony

On Friday 21 June, the Faculty of Pharmacy celebrated this year's graduates with a Graduation ceremony. In attendance were 105 graduates who successfully passed the Final State Examination in both the autumn and spring semester of the academic year 2023/2024, in both Czech and English degree programmes. 

Karel Šmejkal received Rector’s Award for Long-term Excellence in Research

Our very own, Vice-Dean for International Relations and Internationalization, Prof. PharmDr. Karel Šmejkal, Ph.D. was awarded the prestigious MU Rector's Award. On Wednesday 23 May, the Dies Academicus celebrations took place in the auditorium of the Faculty of Law, during which the Rector's Awards, Silver Medals and Gold Medals of Masaryk University were presented. 

24 Apr 2024

Pharmacy student awarded as one of the best delegates of the Model UN

Naeem Malek, our second-year Pharmacy student, got recognized and awarded as one of the best delegates and also delegate with best energy within committee at the prestigious Model United Nations conference held by Masaryk University. 

26 Mar 2024

Faculty of Pharmacy hosts a renowned scientist within the Fulbright program

We are proud to announce that the Faculty of Pharmacy is honored to host professor Yashwanta Pathak from the American University of South Florida. Thanks to the Fulbright scholarship program, the renowned scientist will stay at our faculty for the next three months. He will host lectures for students and academic staff in the field of Nano Drug Delivery within the faculty as well as the whole Masaryk University.