This was the second edition of the competition organized by Puls Medycyny. Students’ accomplishments were evaluated by the same panel of judges responsible for selecting the Supertalents in Medicine 2026 awardees.
WUM award winners
Adrian Bednarek – first place
He is a fifth-year medical student and a PhD candidate at the First Chair and Department of Cardiology at the Medical University of Warsaw. His research interests focus mainly on interventional cardiology, advanced coronary imaging techniques, and the analysis of coronary blood flow parameters. He is also engaged in the implementation and use of artificial intelligence algorithms in medical practice.
He is the author and co-author of 24 scientific publications in renown cardiology journals, including European Heart Journal, European Heart Journal – Cardiovascular Imaging, Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, and Atherosclerosis. He has led research projects funded by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the National Science Centre, and the Polish Cardiac Society. He is the only student selected for the Emerging Leaders program organized by the World Heart Federation, where together with 25 experts from around the world, he co-develops an initiative regarding barriers to implementing AI-ECG algorithms in everyday cardiac care.
He is a member of the “Club 30” of the Polish Cardiac Society. He is also the co-founder and president of the Student Cardiology Association, as well as the chair of the Student Scientific Association at the First Department of Cardiology of WUM. He has twice received the Polish Minister of Health Scholarship.
Bartosz Bunar – third place
Bartosz Bunar is a fifth-year medical student at WUM and a biotechnology student within the Interdisciplinary Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences (MISMaP) program at the University of Warsaw (UW). His scientific work concentrates on the development of innovative cancer therapies, synthetic biology, and translational medicine. He gained laboratory experience through research conducted at the International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IIMCB) and the Centre of New Technologies at UW.
As the leader of the team developing the oncology project HepaSwitch, he won a silver medal at the international iGEM Grand Jamboree in Paris in 2025. He also served as project manager of the grant “Horizon of Excellence in Applications of Synthetic Biology in Oncology” and received the first prize in the nationwide StRuNa-MED 2025 competition for the HepaSwitch project.
He is also developing competence at the intersection of science and the medical-business sector. He has participated in educational programs such as the L.A. Paga Foundation Healthcare Leadership Academy, BioTech Leaders Academy, and the Medical School of Your Future camp, broadening his knowledge in healthcare innovation and management
Karol Sadowski – fifth place
Karol Sadowski is a sixth-year medical student at WUM and a third-year PhD student at the WUM Doctoral School. He is also pursuing postgraduate studies in 4EU+ Entrepreneurial & Intrapreneurial Project Management at Sorbonne University in Paris.
He is developing international research experience as a Research Fellow at Thoraxcenter (Erasmus MC in Rotterdam) and as a Visiting Research Fellow at Amsterdam UMC in the Netherlands. His clinical and scientific interests focus on interventional cardiology and advanced imaging diagnostics. He is the author of 18 full-text scientific publications.
As Chair of the WUM Doctoral Students’ Council Board, he represents the PhD student community and is actively engaged in initiatives supporting the scientific and professional development, as well as the well-being of young researchers. Among the key projects which he has co-created are the PhD Pathways conference, the PhD Wellness Days event series, and the PhD Beyond Borders initiative, which promotes international exchange of experience among PhD students.
He is also interested in entrepreneurship and innovation in medicine. In this field, he has achieved success as a winner of the BraveCamp startup program organized by the University of Warsaw and the MedBiz Innovations competition for biomedical projects.
Jaromir Tomasik – seventh place
Jaromir Tomasik is a sixth-year medical student and a PhD student at WUM. He is completing his doctoral thesis within the Student-PhD program under the supervision of Prof. Grzegorz Basak at the Department of Hematology, Transplantation and Internal Medicine, WUM. His scientific and clinical interests lie in the use of immunotherapy in hematology.
He serves as principal investigator of the National Science Centre PRELUDIUM 23 project entitled “Identification and Characterization of Omics Profiles in the Serum of Patients Receiving Anti-CD19 CAR-T Therapy.” He has also participated as a researcher in a study funded by the Medical Research Agency and led a student research mini-grant project.
He is the first author of the article “Second Primary Malignant Neoplasms After T-Cell Engaging Bispecific Antibody Therapy,” which has been accepted for publication in JAMA Oncology and will appear on June 18 of this year. He carried out this work as part of a team led by scientists from the United States, with the participation of researchers from several countries.
He received the Abstract Achievement Award granted by the American Society of Hematology (ASH) during the organization’s 67th Annual Meeting for the paper entitled “Unsupervised Proteomic and Metabolomic Longitudinal Serum Profiling of Anti-CD19 CAR-T Cell Therapy Recipients Reveals Clinically Distinct Groups.”
His achievements also include an oral presentation at the 50th Congress of the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT) in 2024, devoted to salvage treatment after CAR-T therapy failure in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.
Jakub Piotr Adamus – eighth place
He is a sixth-year medical student at WUM and the founder of the Clinical Immunology Students' Scientific Association at WUM, supervised by Prof. Leszek Pączek and Dr hab. Aleksandra Wyczałkowska-Tomasik. His research activities integrate topics from orthopedics, translational immunology, enzymology, and metallomics.
He is the author and co-author of eight peer-reviewed scientific publications, an awardee of the National Science Centre PRELUDIUM 24 and serves as project manager of a research project in the field of the multidimensional analysis of redox and elemental homeostasis in a model of end-stage liver failure (conducted at the Department of Clinical Immunology).
His clinical and scientific experience was further developed during two six-week internships at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York—one of the world’s leading orthopedic centers. The internships involved prosthesoplastics and sports medicine and concluded with an invitation for continued collaboration.
He is the initiator of research projects integrating immunology, orthopedics, and translational medicine. He also made history as the first student to deliver a lecture at the Polish Orthopedics and Traumatology Summit at the Ministry of Health.