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MINIATURA 9 grants awarded to our scientists
The National Science Centre has awarded grants for innovative initial or pilot research to Piotr Alster, PhD Hab., from the Department of Neurology at the Faculty of Health Sciences, and Cezary Maciejewski, MD PhD, from the 1st Chair and Department of Cardiology. Piotr Alster’s research focuses on Parkinson’s disease, while Cezary Maciejewski investigates how sarcoidosis affects the heart.
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Research: Natural biomaterials to support wound healing
Type II diabetes is a disease that often leads to diabetic foot syndrome and characteristic chronic wounds. It is one of the most dangerous complications of diabetes, often leading to limb amputation and increasing the risk of serious infections. Unfortunately, the incidence of diabetes continues to rise, and the available methods of treating wounds in patients often prove insufficient. Therefore, the search for new, bioactive dressings that could be used in the treatment of chronic wounds in this condition is extremely necessary and important.
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Innovative transcatheter mitral valve implantation procedures at WUM
Our specialists have performed the first transcatheter mitral valve implantation procedures in Poland, which were also among the first in Europe, using a new system. This opens new therapeutic perspectives for a large group of symptomatic patients who, due to clinical and anatomical limitations, could not previously be effectively treated.
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From the sea to the mountains, with a stop at WUM – transplant recipients, physicians, and medical students on a cycling tour
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.
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Grant for a project using AI to predict treatment outcomes for abdominal cancers
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.
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Professor Aneta Nitsch-Osuch appointed to the Polish Accreditation Committee
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.
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NCN Miniatura grant for research on liver fibrosis
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.
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Knight’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta for our employee and researcher
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.
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At the Medical University of Warsaw, a pioneering esophagus study was conducted in Poland for the first time
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.
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MUW specialists among newly appointed provincial medical consultants
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.

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