For many years the Medical University of Gdańsk has been consequently realising its developmemt strategy in the fields of research & innovation by grant-searching and directly overseeing research projects. The main achievement and confirmation of its leading role in research is the objective position of the MUG’s faculties in independent parametric analysis. The Ministry of Science and Higher Education ranked the MUG’s Faculty of Medicine, the Faculty of Health Sciences with grades A, and the Faculty of Pharmacy and Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology UG & MUG with a grade A+.

Thanks to the funds provided to the MUG by the Foundation for Polish Science as part of the International Research Agenda programme (Międzynarodowe Agendy Badawcze – MAB), a research centre has been established that specialises in research on genetic aberrations acquired as a risk factor for cancer and other diseases. Leaders of the project “Mutations acquired during lifetime that lead to increased risk for human disease, with focus on cancer” (acronym 3P-Medicine – Preventive, Personalised, Precision) are prof. Arkadiusz Piotrowski Ph.D. from the Department of Biology and Pharmaceutical Botany and prof. Jan Dumański from the Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology at the University of Uppsala.