On December 17, 2022, VSMU took part online in the Innovation Forum on Traditional Medicine Research, organized by VSMU's partner university, Guizhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The forum, with the theme “Inheritance and Innovation, Cooperation and Exchange, and Creating a Future Together”, consisted of the Guizhou Scholars Section, Young Researchers Section, Graduate Student Section, and Joint Education Section. From VSMU, the candidate of biological sciences, head of the Chair of Standardization of Medicines with the Course of the Faculty of Advanced Training and Staff Retraining Yakovleva Olga Alexandrovna made the report “Antioxidant activity of Rubus rosifolius Sm., cultivated in the territory of the Republic of Belarus”. The event was attended by speakers from universities in China, the UK, the Russian Federation.
VSMU received an invitation from Harbin Medical University and the Organizing Committee of the Ophthalmology Hospital to participate in the 10th International Forum on Ophthalmology, which took place on December 18, 2022 online. The forum was organized among young scientists from China, the Russian Federation and Belarus, who shared scientific clinical and fundamental research. Marchenko Arina Anatolyevna, assistant of the Department of Ophthalmology, spoke from VSMU with a report “Detection of the Torque Teno virus in the intraocular fluid in patients with uveitis”.