The procedure was performed by a team of Łukasz Januszkiewicz, MD, PhD, and Marcin Michalak, MD, along with assisting staff Dorota Świątek, MA, Oleksandra Solohub, MA, Katarzyna Zawiła, MA, and Zuzanna Sawicka, MA. The patient was a 71-year-old woman following a cryptogenic stroke. Previous diagnostics had failed to find the cause of the stroke, and the innovative device is expected to help with this.

The photography exhibition “The Power of Women” opened at the Teaching Center of the Medical University of Warsaw presents portraits of women who had the courage to feel beautiful and feminine while struggling with a serious illness.

The National Science Center announced the a of projects that will receive funding in the “OPUS 26+LAP/Weave” competition. Among them is the project titled “Restoring beta cell integrity through targeted inhibition of SPOP and maintenance of PDX-1” focusing on an innovative therapeutic strategy in diabetes, in which our University serves as a consortium member. The co-author of the project on the Medical University of Warsaw side is professor Maciej Dawidowski from the Chair of Drug Technology and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology.

The Minister of Science and Higher Education, Dariusz Wieczorek, has appointed a team to develop assumptions for the creation of a database of scientific journals. One of the experts of this team is Prof. Daniel Młocicki, Head of the Department of General Biology and Parasitology MUW.

On World Prematurity Day, it is worth noting the special needs of children born prematurely. They need intensive therapy, complex treatments, but also what is very simple and natural, i.e. access to mom and breast milk - stresses our guest Aleksandra Wesołowska, MD, PhD, Head of the Laboratory for Research on Breast Milk and Lactation

The lack of an effective system of early prevention in the field of child and adolescent mental health, an insufficient number of psychiatrists in the face of a growing number of patients, as well as excessively long waiting times for specialized psychiatric help in some regions of the country - these were the main conclusions of the “Road to the Presidency: child and adolescent psychiatry” conference held at MUW on October 30. The meeting was organized by the Institute for the Development of Social Affairs (IRSS) and the Medical Center MUW.

Portraits of Polish Medicine is a prestigious competition organized by the magazine and portal Rynek Zdrowia. Among the winners of this year's edition was a team from the University Clinical Center MUW, which was recognized for performing the world's first assisted liver transplant, in a patient after an organ injury suffered in a traffic accident.

We are talking about the specialization in medical laboratory parasitology, which in October 2024 received a positive evaluation from the Polish Accreditation Commission and approval from the Ministry of Health. Among the experts responsible for developing the basic and supplementary program of the specialization are Rusłan Sałamatin, MD, PhD, from the Department of General Biology and Parasitology MUW, and Agnieszka Pawełczyk, PhD in Biology, from the Department of Immunopathology of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases MUW.

The changing labor market requires universities to take a new approach to education. The “Universities of the Future” project, which aims to prepare universities to meet new challenges, has just begun. The project is being carried out at 12 Polish universities, and the Medical University of Warsaw is one of them.

Orbitopathy is a disease that may lead to temporary or permanent damage to the eye. The aim of the EuGoGO’s course is to improve the level of medical care for patients with orbitopathy and, as a result, improve their quality of life.