International recognition for researchers from the Department of Urology, Medical University of Gdańsk

30.06.2025

A team of researchers from the Department of Urology at the Medical University of Gdańsk (MUG) has been honoured with the prestigious Premio Actas Urológicas Españolas al Artículo más descargado en 2024, awarded by the Spanish scientific society Asociación Española de Urología (AEU) in collaboration with the Fundación para la Investigación en Urología (FIU).

The accolade was granted in recognition of the multi-institutional publication entitled Oral Care Pathways After Oral Mucosal Graft Harvesting: Systematic Review, which garnered the highest number of downloads among all articles published in Actas Urológicas Españolas in 2024. The study constitutes a systematic review of existing clinical protocols for postoperative oral care following the harvesting of buccal mucosal grafts – an established technique in urethral reconstructive surgery. The article provides clinically relevant recommendations aimed at enhancing patient safety and optimising the quality of postoperative care in this surgical context.

Among the co-authors of the awarded paper were researchers affiliated with the MUG: Mikołaj Frankiewicz, M.D., Ph.D. from the Department of Urology at the MUG (first author), and Prof. Marcin Matuszewski, Head of the Department.

The award ceremony took place on 12th June in Madrid, during the inaugural session of the LXXXVIII Congreso Nacional de Urología, organised at the Palacio de Congresos de Cádiz by the Spanish Urological Association. The award was accepted on behalf of the first author, Mikołaj Frankiewicz, M.D, Ph.D., by the co-author Félix Campos, M.D., Ph.D.

Photo. Félix Campos, M.D., Ph.D.