Prof. Bożena Kociszewska-Najman, Head of MUW’s Department of Neonatology and Director of the MUW’s Doctoral Study Center, is cooperating with the Government of Papua New Guinea in organizing a medical mission to the Esa'Al District islands in the Solomon Sea. MUW’s first medical mission to the Esa'Al District will take place in July 2020 at the invitation of the Government of Papua New Guinea, represented by Prime Minister Sir Davis Steven, LLB, MP, and under the honorary patronage of the Rector of Medical University of Warsaw, Prof. Mirosław Wielgoś.

February 6, 2020 in the Department of General, Endocrine and Vascular Surgery in cooperation with the IInd Department of Clinical Radiology and the IInd Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Therapy of the Medical University of Warsaw an innovative surgery was carried out, consisting in completely transcutaneous implantation of a new generation of aortic arch stentgraft.

On February 12 in the Library and Information Centre began a three-day workshop for MUW academic teachers with a teaching method called Case-Based Learning (CBL). The training is carried out by specialists in the education of the teaching staff of medical studies - Professor Sabine Gerhke-Beck and Professor Harm Peters from Charité – Berlin University of Medicine.

Due to the planned semester break and the related trips of some students to their places of residence, please read the following "Information for students travelling from East Asia and South-East Asia"

The first ablation procedures of cardiac arrhythmias using a new generation of cooled catheters in Poland were performed on January 20-21, at the 1st Chair and Department of Cardiology at the Central Clinical Hospital of UCC MUW.

Medical University of Warsaw doctoral student, Sandra Górska, from the Chair and Department of Drug Technology and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology participated in the 2019 IIER 767th International Conference on Natural Science and Environment (ICNSE) which took place from 9-10 December, 2019 in Athens, Greece.

On Friday, January 17, the English Division officially launched its “MUWing Science” mentorship program, which gives students enrolled in the 6-year English Division Medical Program an opportunity to develop their skills and scientific interests with the help of a mentor. This is the first ever mentorship program at Medical University of Warsaw. The program initiator is Prof. Marek Postuła - Dean of the English Division at the Faculty of Medicine.

From January 14-17, 2020, MUW students were able to attend lectures on clinical microbiology delivered by Prof. Giovanni Gherardi from the University of Campus Bio-Medico in Rome thanks to the „MUW Academy of Innovative Didactics” POWER Grant Program. Students could listen to all or any of Prof. Gherardi's four different lectures on the topic of "Challenges in Clinical Microbiology."

Jarosław Biliński, PhD, from MUW’s UCC Department of Hematology, Oncology and Internal Diseases, has been selected for the 2020 European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT) Young Ambassadors Programme.

On January 15, Health Minister Łukasz Szumowski presented awards to six academics from Medical University of Warsaw to honor their outstanding achievements.