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A festival of opportunities for our students
This year’s Festival of Opportunities, a medical and pharmaceutical career fair featuring job openings, internships, and work experience opportunities, has come to an end. On October 28, representatives of more than 30 companies and institutions set up their booths at WUM’s Didactic Center. Visitors had the opportunity to talk to them about career prospects and trends in the job market. The representatives also offered advice on which skills to develop to meet employers’ expectations and even how to tailor a résumé to a specific job offer. The event attracted considerable interest, with more than 600 people attending the fair.
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WUM ranked Poland’s top medical university by WaszaEdukacja.pl
The results of the 2026 Ranking of Universities in Poland, compiled by the WaszaEdukacja.pl portal, have just been announced. Our university ranked highest among all Polish medical universities and placed an impressive 20th overall.
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Dr Tytus Chałubiński Medal for Professor Lech Korniszewski
On 26 October 2026, Prof. Rafał Krenke, the Rector of WUM, presented Professor Lech Korniszewski with the Dr Tytus Chałubiński medal. This prestigious distinction was granted in recognition of many years of clinical, scientific and teaching activity, enormous involvement in teaching successive generations of young physicians at WUM, and selfless service to others.
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Prof. Michał Grąt wins the “Portrait of Polish Medicine”
The winners of the Portraits of Polish Medicine were announced during the 22nd Health Market Forum in Warsaw. Prof. Michał Grąt, the Head of the Department of General, Transplant and Liver Surgery WUM, is among the award recipients.
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Faculty of Dental Medicine – graduates of four programs received their diplomas
This is the second graduation ceremony at the Faculty of Dental Medicine in recent weeks. This time, 141 graduates received their diplomas in four programs: Dental Medicine in Polish – 101 individuals, Dental Medicine in English – 6, dental techniques – 17 and dental hygiene – 17 individuals.
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Our university ranks high in the science-industry cooperation ranking
The Medical University of Warsaw ranked fourth among Polish universities and second among Polish medical universities in the 2026 Industry Collaboration Index. In the global ranking, WUM took the 829th place.
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Everything is chemistry. Extraordinary lecture by a Nobel laureate at WUM
The fact that every life is an extremely complex network of chemical reactions was discussed on October 20, 2026, at WUM during a lecture by Prof. Morten P. Meldal, 2022 Nobel laureate in Chemistry. The participants of the meeting with the Nobel laureate were greeted with a humorous story about how passion can change the course of science.
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WUM on the podium of 2026 Golden Scalpel competition. First and third place for our projects
In the 18th edition of the Golden Scalpel competition, the top prize was awarded to the team of Prof. Michał Grąt, the Head of the Chair and Department of General, Transplant and Liver Surgery, for a pioneering autotransplantation program and the world's first chimeric liver transplants. The third place went to the team led by Prof. Mariusz Kuśmierczyk, the Head of the Department of Heart, Chest and Transplant Surgery for the project on immunological screening, desensitization and monitoring of heart transplant recipients using donor-derived cell-free DNA.
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Prof. Zygmunt Derewenda visited us again
Professor Derewenda from the University of Virginia (UVA) in Charlottesville, USA, attended a seminar in pharmaceutical sciences, and the topic of his speech was hemoglobin – one of the most important proteins in the history of science, responsible for the transport of oxygen from the lungs to tissues and organs, also involved in the transport of carbon dioxide.
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A record-breaking class of medical students received diplomas
631 Faculty of Medicine graduates from the year 2026 have just received their diplomas. It was a unique graduating class, because never before has the Faculty of Medicine WUM sent so many graduates into the world from a single year.