On January 30 the President of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej Duda, handed out nomination acts to 75 academic teachers and employees of science and art. Among them was Prof. Joanna Kolmas from the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Biomaterials of the Faculty of Pharmacy MUW. And at the ceremony held on February 5, among the 70 professors who received their acts was Prof. Anna Badowska-Kozakiewicz from the Department of Oncology Propedeutics of the Faculty of Health Sciences MUW.

This year, for the first time ever, we organized The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity team at MUW. Yesterday and Saturday, our Sports and Rehabilitation Center was a place of great fun and incredible energy.

2197 organs, including 1132 kidneys, 615 livers, 201 hearts and 147 lungs were transplanted in Poland in 2024. A significant portion of these transplants were carried out at the University Clinical Center MUW, confirming its position as the largest transplant center in our country, as well as one of the most thriving transplant centers in the world. In order to summarize the last year in Polish transplantology and present the prospects for further development of this field, a press conference was held at MUW with the participation of Minister of Health Izabela Leszczyna and Prof. Rafał Krenke, Rector of MUW, Prof. Michał Grąt, Vice Rector of MUW, clinical transplantologist and national consultant in clinical transplantology, as well as Prof. Mariusz Kuśmierczyk, cardiac surgeon and clinical transplantologist.

The Ministry of Health invited chief doctors, chief dentists and chief nurses to a meeting with representatives of the ministry and EU institutions to discuss the issue of medical staff training, related challenges and solutions that could strengthen the Polish and European health care system. The meeting was attended by Prof. Dorota Olczak-Kowalczyk, Vice Rector for Human Resources MUW, who also acted as an expert-panelist.

OCS Heart is an innovative perfusion and monitoring system that keeps a retrieved heart outside the body, in a metabolically active state, for up to 12 hours. It allows transport of the harvested organ over a long distance and gives specialists time to assess the quality of the heart and decide whether to implant it or not. It was used for the first time in Poland, in March 2024, by the team of Professor Mariusz Kuśmierczyk from the Department of Heart, Thoracic and Transplant Surgery UCC MUW. To date, our specialists have performed seven transplants using this equipment. The latest one was carried out on a 14-year-old patient, for whom the heart was transported all the way from Lithuania. On February 20 at the Children's Clinical Hospital UCC MUW one could listen to the possibilities offered by the use of this modern apparatus, and not only in heart transplants, but also in liver and lung transplants.

Funding for our university was awarded by the Agency for Medical Research (ABM). Thanks to the ABM funds, our scientists will carry out projects that are part of the specific activities of the Government's Biomedical Sector Development Plan for 2022-2031. Their projects are related to: pancreatic cancer therapy, CAR-T cell therapy and treatment of inflammatory skin conditions of various etiologies. This is another scientific success for our university!

The year-and-a-half-long modernization of the Department of Neurology MUW at the Central Clinical Hospital on Banacha Street has been completed. Now patients will be treated in very good conditions. The department has been equipped with modern diagnostic and rehabilitation equipment, as well as patient rooms have been renovated and adapted for people with disabilities

The drug in question is Trabumag, which, as an innovative painkiller, has been covered, along with other innovative solutions, by the so-called “invention content” created as part of a project funded by the National Research and Development Center. The Medical University of Warsaw has obtained a protective patent for the drug in the US and a European protective patent. The solution used in the drug, the author of which is Prof. Magdalena Bujalska-Zadrożny from the Faculty of Pharmacy MUW, is a complex pharmaceutical composition made from a combination of micronized magnesium salts and the active substance.

The Professors' Club of our university hosted the traditional New Year's meeting between the incumbent rector and former rectors of MUW. The event symbolizes the continuity of power at the university.