The Polish Pharmaceutical Students’ Association, whose Bydgoszcz branch functions at NCU Collegium Medicum, received the award for the best pharmaceutical organisation in the world, presented at the Congress of the International Pharmaceutical Students’ Federation in Taiwan.

On 4 October 2017, an agreement on cooperation was signed between the Group for Identification based on DNA (GRID), a newly-established research consortium headed by NCU Collegium Medicum, and the Polish Institute of National Remembrance (IPN).

Anna Maria Dobosiewicz, a student of the Faculty of Health Sciences of NCU Collegium Medicum, was awarded the title of the Best Student of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in the academic year 2016/2017.

The World Heart Day will be celebrated worldwide on 29 September 2017. The event is organised annually by the World Heart Federation to raise public awareness about cardiovascular disease – the major cause of death in the world today.

Prof. dr hab. Jan Styczyński, head of the Division of Clinical and Experimental Oncology at the Faculty of Medicine of NCU Collegium Medicum, has been elected as Vice-President of the European Conference on Infections in Leukaemia (ECIL).

Prof. dr hab. Grażyna Odrowąż-Sypniewska – Vice-Rector for Collegium Medicum, and prof. dr hab. Jacek Kubica – Vice-Rector for Research, are involved in research studies contributing to the development of new clinical guidelines published in high-ranking journals.

Two researchers from NCU Collegium Medicum received scholarships for high-impact publications: dr hab. Anna Brożyna (Department of Tumour Pathology and Pathomorphology) and dr. hab. Marek Koziński (Division of Principles of Clinical Medicine).