Medical Research Agency MRA Council

Its competences include issuing opinions on promising directions of research activities and on division of financial resources. The Council also delivers opinions on the annual activity plan of the ABM, which is a document that specifies the scope for competitions and own projects run by the ABM in a given calendar year.

The Council of the Agency is composed of (2025-2031 term):

Chairman of the council: Professor Piotr Łukasz Rutkowski - Head of the Department of Tumors of Soft Tissues, Bones and Melanomas of the Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Cancer Institute - National Research Institute in Warsaw, Plenipotentiary of the Director for the National Oncology Strategy and Clinical Trials [nominated by the directors of research institutes supervised by the Minister of Health].

Deputy chairman of the council: Professor Jerzy Sieńko - Department of General and Transplant Surgery with Subdivision of Oncological Surgery of the SPWSZ [nominated by the Minister of Health].

Members: 

• Professor Michał Grąt - associated with the Department of General, Transplant and Liver Surgery at UCC MUW. Vice-rector for Internationalization, Promotion and Development; national consultant in clinical transplantation; member of the National Transplant Council [nominated by the Minister of Health]
• Professor Tomasz Guzik - Jagiellonian University Collegium Medicum; head of the Department of Internal Medicine and Rural Medicine and the Omicron Medical Genomics Center; 5th Military Clinical Hospital with Polyclinic in Krakow; editor-in-chief of Cardiovascular Research (Oxford Univ Press); [nominated by the Minister of National Defense].
• Mirosław Jerzy Jarosz MD, PhD - The University of Economics and Innovation in Lublin (WSEI), Faculty of Human Sciences - professor; Witold Chodźko Institute of Rural Medicine in Lublin - chairman of the Scientific Council; Lublin Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences - member Commission on Fundamentals and Applications of Physics and Chemistry in Technology, Agriculture and Medicine [nominated by Ministry of Economic Development and Technology].
• Professor Katarzyna Kotulska-Jóźwiak [nominated by the Minister of Health]
• Ms Daria Kruk - Lawyer with many years of professional experience in government administration, head of the Supervision Department of the Department of Supervision and Control of the Ministry of Health [nominated by the Minister of Health]
• Professor Mansur Rahnama-Hezavah – Head of the Department of Dental Surgery at the Medical University of Lublin, specialist in maxillofacial surgery and dental surgery, national consultant in dental surgery, president of the Polish Society of Dental and Maxillofacial Surgery, secretary of the Presidium of the Council for Scientific Excellence for the second term of office, member and expert of the Polish Accreditation Commission [nominated by the Minister of Health]
• Dr Arkadiusz Nowak – The Institute for Patients' Rights and Health Education; Institute of Health Sciences, Collegium Medicum - University of Zielona Gora [nominated by the organizations whose statutory objectives include the protection of patient rights}
• Professor Dominika Nowis - Head of the Laboratory of Experimental Medicine of the Faculty of Medicine of the Warsaw Medical University [nominated by the Minister of Health]
• Col Krzysztof Różanowski MD, PhD [nomited by the President of the Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Tarification]
• Professor Krystyna Skalicka - Woźniak - Head of the Department of Chemistry of Natural Products, Medical University of Lublin [nominated by the Conference of Rectors of Academic Medical Universities].
• Professor Agnieszka Słowik - Head of Department of Neurology, Jagiellonian University Collegium Medicum, Kraków and Head of Clinical Department of Neurology, University Hospital, Kraków [nominated by the Minister of Health].
• Mr. Jakub Szulc [nominated by the President of the National Health Fund]
• Professor Krzysztof Warzocha – Institute of Medical Expertise in Lodz [nominated by the Minister of  Internal Affairs].
• Bernard Waśko MD, PhD - Graduated from the Medical Academy in Lublin. He served as director of the Frederic Chopin Regional Specialized Hospital in Rzeszow, and was medical director at the PwC consulting firm. He also served as deputy president of the National Health Fund for medical affairs. He is currently director of the National Institute of Public Health [nominated by the Minister of Health].