On August 5, in front of the University Clinical Center (UCK) of the Medical University of Warsaw on Banacha Street, one of the stages of the “Transplant tour: from the sea to the mountains” came to an end. The participants include organ transplant recipients as well as physicians and medical students, among them representatives of our academic community.

The National Science Centre (NCN) has just announced the results of the SONATINA 9 competition. Grants were awarded to 50 early-career researchers holding a doctoral degree. Among the winners is Dr. Krzysztof Bartnik from the 2nd Department of Radiology at the University Clinical Center of the Medical University of Warsaw. He received PLN 705,935 in funding to carry out a project aimed at improving the precision of predicting and monitoring the effectiveness of abdominal cancer treatment by applying machine learning and deep learning methods to the comprehensive analysis of medical imaging. The project is being conducted in consortium with the Warsaw University of Technology.

Professor Aneta Nitsch-Osuch, Vice-Dean for Curriculum and Quality of Education at the Faculty of Medicine of the Medical University of Warsaw, was appointed on June 12, 2025, by the Minister of Science and Higher Education and joined the Medical and Health Sciences Section of the Polish Accreditation Committee (PKA), where she had previously served as an expert.

Dr. Beata Kruk from the Department and Chair of General, Transplant and Liver Surgery has received funding under the National Science Centre’s Miniatura 9 competition for a study assessing the impact of a new ARID3A gene variant (rs2238571) on the risk of development and progression of primary biliary cholangitis, in particular by analyzing its association with the severity of liver fibrosis.

On July 10, the Secretary of State in the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland, Minister Andrzej Dera, presented state decorations awarded by the President of the Republic of Poland. Among those honored was Dr. Andrzej Miskiewicz, PhD in medicine, from the Department of Mucosal and Periodontal Diseases at WUM, who received the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.

At the Department of Gastroenterology and Pediatric Nutrition at the Medical University of Warsaw, led by Prof. Aleksandra Banaszkiewicz, the impedance planimetry procedure of the esophagus (EndoFLIP) was performed in Poland for the first time. The examination involves measuring the compliance of the esophageal wall to stretching and evaluating esophageal motility. It is a solution used particularly in children, when conventional diagnostic methods fail.

On June 25, Prof. Renata Główczyńska, Prof. Ireneusz Nawrot, Prof. Agnieszka Szypowska and Jacek Lewandowski, MD, PhD, received their appointment acts as medical consultants for the Mazovian province. They were presented by Mazovian Governor Mariusz Frankowski.

The QS World University Rankings by Subject are annual listings of the world’s best universities, prepared according to the scientific disciplines they represent. In the latest edition, our university ranked 401–450 in the discipline of Medicine, making it the second-highest ranked institution from Poland in this category.

Magdalena Grochowska, MD, a student at our Doctoral School working in the Department of Pediatric Pneumonology and Allergology MUW has won second place in the prestigious Young Investigator Award competition.

The Department of Social Medicine and Public Health has received funding from the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) under the prestigious SPINAKER – Intensive International Education Programs scheme.