After the first round of the competition for the research and development activities in the field of non-commercial clinical trials, the Medical University of Warsaw received funding from the Medical Research Agency in the amount of PLN 17,354,830 for the implementation of the project entitled "The Use of low-dose CAR-T antiCD19 lymphocytes in the treatment of adult patients with recurrent and refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia and Burkitt’s lymphoma. Phase I/II clinical trial (MERMAID1)".

Ernest Kuchar MD, PhD - Head of Department of Pediatrics with Clinical Decisions Unit of UCC MUW and Kamilla Bargiel-Matusiewicz, MD, PhD, from the Department of Health and Rehabilitation Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Warsaw received funding for the project entitled "Identification of the factors that increase the percentage of children and adolescents being vaccinated”.

The new Rector of the Medical University of Warsaw, Prof. Zbigniew Gaciong, signed the Act for appointing new Deans.

In the latest Times Higher Education World University Rankings, the Medical University of Warsaw was recognized as one of the two best Polish universities (ex aequo with the University of Warsaw), and is the sole Polish medical university included in the ranking.

On August 31, 2020, Prof. Mirosław Wielgoś, Rector (2016-2020) presented his successor, Prof. Zbigniew Gaciong, with the rector’s insignia (a chain, scepter and ring).  The transfer of authority ceremony took place in the University’s Senate room to mark the beginning of the new Rector’s 4-year term starting September 1, 2020.

Daniel Śliż, PhD – Assistant Professor from the Third Department of Internal Diseases and Cardiology of the Medical University of Warsaw received the nomination to the European Association of Preventive Cardiology Young Ambassador 2020-2022 for Poland.

The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), also known as Shanghai Ranking, is a prestigious and the most trustworthy ranking of the world top universities, released annually. Our University, together with seven others from Poland, was distinguished and found itself among this year’s top 1000 universities.

Doctors of University Clinic Centre of Medical University of Warsaw set the highest standards of care for a child with congenital heart block. On July 17 2020, Dr. Michał Buczyński, MDPhD from the Department of Cardiac and General Pediatric Surgery UCC MUW, headed by Prof. Maciej Karolczak, and Dr. Piotr Wieniawski, MDPhD from the Department of Pediatric Cardiology and General Pediatrics UCC MUW, headed by Prof. Bożena Werner, successfully performed an implantation of a pacemaker to a premature infant, delivered at week 30 of fetal life, with congenital complete atrioventricular block.

Sebastian Machera - a first-year student of medicine at the Medical University of Warsaw and biotechnology at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences, won the first prize at this year's Polish Edition of the European Union Contest for Young Scientists (EUCYS). It is a prestigious event that allows young undergraduates studying science to present their scholar achievements.

On 8 July 2020 in the Chair and Department of General, Transplant and Liver Surgery UCC MUW, headed by Prof. Krzysztof Zieniewicz, the surgeons performed a liver transplantation using an innovative method - hypothermic mechanical extracorporeal perfusion and oxygenation of the liver in hypothermia - D-HOPE.