The specialists from the 1st Chair and Department of Cardiology MUW performed the implantation of an innovative arrhythmia recorder using artificial intelligence algorithms. The patient was a 57-year-old patient with recurrent loss of consciousness. Previous diagnostics had failed to identify the cause of these symptoms, the innovative device is expected to help with this.

Throughout September, high school students from Warsaw and Mazovian Province are visiting our new Medical Simulation Center to learn about modern teaching methods in high-fidelity rooms - recreating, for example, an accident scene, a hospital emergency department or a delivery room.

Dr. Agnieszka Łukomska of the Regenerative Medicine Laboratory MUW has received funding for preliminary/pilot research on the use of the CD113 marker to identify retinal stem cells. Our scientist's research will provide preliminary data that will determine the direction for future scientific projects on retinal stem cell therapies to regenerate the central nervous system.

A team of doctors and psychologists from the Department of Hepatology, Transplantology and Internal Diseases and from the Health Psychology Center received the “Ewa Borek ‘Leader of Patient-centricity’ 2024” award for an interventional study aimed at improving the quality of life of patients with rare liver diseases. This is a unique distinction because it is awarded directly by patients.

On July 8, Mazovian Governor Mariusz Frankowski handed out appointments to the positions of Mazovian province consultants to thirteen doctors. Among them are specialists from MUW: Dr. Joanna Lange, Janusz Trzebicki, MD, PhD, Prof. Mariusz Frączek, Dr. Elżbieta Kozak-Szkopek, Prof. Magdalena Durlik and Prof. Sławomir Nazarewski.

The latest system for removing thrombus from vessels has been used at the Department of Cardiology MUW. This is one of the first applications of the minimally invasive system – AlphaVac, in Europe.

The National Science Center has announced the second ranking list of the MINIATURA 8 competition. Among the 53 winners was Agnieszka Bzikowska-Jura, MD, PhD, from the Department of Medical Biology. Our researcher has received funding in the amount of PLN 48,529 for the preliminary/pilot study "Breast milk composition and sleep quality of exclusively breastfed infants." The study will include 50 women in the second month of lactation, exclusively breastfeeding. The data obtained will allow analysis of the influence of maternal and environmental factors on the content of selected components of breast milk.

Professor Schmelzle is an expert specializing in cancer surgery and transplant surgery of abdominal organs. To best present trends and opportunities in the surgical treatment of cancer, he made hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) the "hero" of the lecture.

On June 18, 2024, a meeting of deans of pharmacy faculties and members of the Team of the Ministry of Health for the development of changes in the standard of education preparing to practice as a pharmacist with students - representatives of the Agreement of the United Self-Governments of the Faculties of Pharmacy, the Polish Society of Pharmacy Students and the Student Section "Young Pharmacy" operating at the Polish Pharmaceutical Society was held at the headquarters of the Polish Pharmaceutical Society

Kamila Zacharewicz, a third-year nursing student at the Faculty of Health Sciences, took 2nd place on the podium. Thus, she beat 43 people who decided to compete in the XIV Intercollegiate Nursing Olympiad named after Dr. Janina Fetlinskaya. Congratulations!