Kamila Zacharewicz, a nursing student from the Faculty of Health Sciences MUW, took 3rd place in the finals of the 13th BraveCamp Entrepreneurship Academy. The jury appreciated her PrimiCare - an original design for securing incontinence diapers to prevent unconscious removal by patients with dementia diseases.

The conference was a summary of the series of debates “Road to the Presidency.” During the event, the White Paper, a document constituting a collection of comments and opinions on the priorities of the Polish Presidency in the EU Council, was presented. Five panel discussions were held, with the participation of more than 40 experts. The guest of honor was Lech Wałęsa.

The just-published latest edition of the prestigious list - the List of One Hundred - included as many as 22 people from MUW. This is the umpteenth time that the plebiscite's jury has recognized the achievements and positive impact of our university's representatives on the development of medicine and health care in the country.

The old prints from the collection of pharmacist and pharmacy historian Teofil Tugendhold have found their way into the collection of the Museum of the History of Medicine MUW thanks to the restitution efforts of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The collection of 800 publications from the former collection of the Library of the Department of Applied Pharmacy of the University of Warsaw, was lost during World War II.

On January 30 the President of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej Duda, handed out nomination acts to 75 academic teachers and employees of science and art. Among them was Prof. Joanna Kolmas from the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Biomaterials of the Faculty of Pharmacy MUW. And at the ceremony held on February 5, among the 70 professors who received their acts was Prof. Anna Badowska-Kozakiewicz from the Department of Oncology Propedeutics of the Faculty of Health Sciences MUW.

This year, for the first time ever, we organized The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity team at MUW. Yesterday and Saturday, our Sports and Rehabilitation Center was a place of great fun and incredible energy.

2197 organs, including 1132 kidneys, 615 livers, 201 hearts and 147 lungs were transplanted in Poland in 2024. A significant portion of these transplants were carried out at the University Clinical Center MUW, confirming its position as the largest transplant center in our country, as well as one of the most thriving transplant centers in the world. In order to summarize the last year in Polish transplantology and present the prospects for further development of this field, a press conference was held at MUW with the participation of Minister of Health Izabela Leszczyna and Prof. Rafał Krenke, Rector of MUW, Prof. Michał Grąt, Vice Rector of MUW, clinical transplantologist and national consultant in clinical transplantology, as well as Prof. Mariusz Kuśmierczyk, cardiac surgeon and clinical transplantologist.

The Ministry of Health invited chief doctors, chief dentists and chief nurses to a meeting with representatives of the ministry and EU institutions to discuss the issue of medical staff training, related challenges and solutions that could strengthen the Polish and European health care system. The meeting was attended by Prof. Dorota Olczak-Kowalczyk, Vice Rector for Human Resources MUW, who also acted as an expert-panelist.

OCS Heart is an innovative perfusion and monitoring system that keeps a retrieved heart outside the body, in a metabolically active state, for up to 12 hours. It allows transport of the harvested organ over a long distance and gives specialists time to assess the quality of the heart and decide whether to implant it or not. It was used for the first time in Poland, in March 2024, by the team of Professor Mariusz Kuśmierczyk from the Department of Heart, Thoracic and Transplant Surgery UCC MUW. To date, our specialists have performed seven transplants using this equipment. The latest one was carried out on a 14-year-old patient, for whom the heart was transported all the way from Lithuania. On February 20 at the Children's Clinical Hospital UCC MUW one could listen to the possibilities offered by the use of this modern apparatus, and not only in heart transplants, but also in liver and lung transplants.

Funding for our university was awarded by the Agency for Medical Research (ABM). Thanks to the ABM funds, our scientists will carry out projects that are part of the specific activities of the Government's Biomedical Sector Development Plan for 2022-2031. Their projects are related to: pancreatic cancer therapy, CAR-T cell therapy and treatment of inflammatory skin conditions of various etiologies. This is another scientific success for our university!