The list of the world’s best universities was compiled by Research.com. WUM was classified in three disciplines: Microbiology, Medicine, as well as Biology and Biochemistry.

The AMEE Conference is one of the world’s leading events dedicated to medical education. This year, it was held in Vienna. Representatives of the Medical University of Warsaw (WUM) included Prof. Paweł Włodarski, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine; Prof. Aneta Nitsch-Osuch, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Medicine for Educational Programs and Quality; Dr. Olga Rostkowska from the Department and Clinic of Transplantology, Immunology, Nephrology and Internal Medicine, who chaired the AMEE Humanities Committee 2026; and Milena Witkowska, a student at our university.

A team of interventional cardiologists from the Children’s Clinical Hospital of the University Clinical Center of WUM has successfully performed additional percutaneous pulmonary valve implantation procedures. The interventions were carried out on two pediatric patients with severe pulmonary valve regurgitation who had previously undergone cardiac surgery.

Experts representing the medical, scientific, legal, and public sectors took part in the “Zero Tolerance for Misinformation in Medicine!” conference. They unanimously stressed that preventing the spread of pseudoscientific content and unproven treatment methods is currently one of the key conditions for ensuring patient safety. The Medical University of Warsaw was the honorary patron of the event.

Adam Bujanowicz, MD, a PhD student at the WUM Doctoral School and vice-chair of the WUM PhD Student Government, was elected 2nd Vice-Chair of the Doctoral Forum of Medical Universities (DFUM) for the 2026-2027 term. The Forum represents PhD students from medical universities across Poland, supporting their development and helping to create solutions for the academic community.

August 23 marks the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes. On this occasion, the European Network for Remembrance and Solidarity organizes a public awareness and educational campaign titled “Remember. August 23.” Each year, the campaign highlights the story of a person who, despite risking their own life, dared to stand up to totalitarian evil. This year’s heroine is Stefania Perzanowska, a doctor and graduate of the Faculty of Medicine in Warsaw, who was deported to the Nazi German concentration camp at Majdanek, where - without equipment, medicine, or sanitary conditions - she organized a hospital for female prisoners.

Prof. Wojciech Feleszko, from the Department of Pediatric Pulmonology and Allergology at the Central Clinical Hospital of the Medical University of Warsaw (UCK WUM), is conducting research at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where he is collaborating with researchers from leading American scientific institutions.

The implantation of a bioresorbable PFO (patent foramen ovale) occlude performed at the Department of Cardiology of UCC WUM marks an important step in the development of interventional cardiology, opening up new treatment options for patients with a patent foramen ovale.

The Medical University of Warsaw has completed a project funded by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (KPO) entitled “Innovative Teaching - Medicine of the Future: Expansion and Modernization of the Teaching Infrastructure at the Medical University of Warsaw.”

The Summer School was attended by medical students from Poland and abroad, particularly from Central and Eastern European countries. A total of 123 young people took part in the programme, gaining knowledge, skills and experience in the field of preventive medicine under the guidance of specialists from the Department of Social Medicine and Public Health at the Medical University of Warsaw (WUM).