We warmly congratulate you on the new scientific article on haematological changes in adolescent girls with restrictive anorexia nervosa and secondary amenorrhoea, produced in collaboration between Associate Professor Katarína Šebeková and Professor Podracká, Doctor Gaal Kovalčíková, and Doctor Ľubica Tichá from the National Institute of Children’s Diseases in Bratislava. The study showed lower counts of leukocytes, erythrocytes and thrombocytes, while cytopenia in at least one parameter occurred in 29% of patients – even with normal bone density and sufficient levels of B12 and folate. These results suggest that chronic energy deficit and endocrine adaptation may lead to early disruption of haematological homeostasis.

This year, Professor Peter Celec attended the international Falling Walls Science Summit in Berlin. The event brought together prominent figures from the European and global scientific communities, including such notable names as Yoshua Bengio,Maria Leptin, Patrick Cramer, and Radomír Pánek. Slovakia was represented at the Falling Walls Science Lab by  Daniel Truchan. The photo, however, shows Professor Peter Celec with Marc Abrahams – the organizer of the Ig Nobel Prizes – who delivered the event’s most significant and, among the attendees, most popular presentation.

Young researchers were given the opportunity to present their research in short presentations – flash talks – at the Doctoral School of Comenius University (CU). These were part of the in-person segment of the event Innovative Approaches to Research in Psychopathology, which took place on Tuesday, 3 November 2026 at the Faculty of Arts of CU in Bratislava.

First place went to our doctoral student Emma Skybová, and another prize was won by our active collaborator Dr. Jakub Szabó from the Institute of Medical Physics and Biophysics of the Faculty of Medicine of CU. Big congratulations!