Research priorities
Set by the MNUMS Strategic Plan 2030, whose goal is to become the leading national research university with a research environment that meets international standards.
- 01Molecular genetic research on genes, tissues, cells and stem cells
- 02Research on introducing advanced technologies for disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment
- 03Public health and environmental research
- 04We conduct research on ecologically clean products beneficial to human health and on new and traditional medicines, and introduce innovations.
Research output
In 2025 the university's faculty and researchers published 175 papers in journals indexed in Elsevier's Scopus database; compared with the year before, the number of papers grew by 12% and their citations by 65%. Since 2020 the yearly number of papers has more than doubled (79 → 175).
Source: MNUMS presentation, October 2026
Open research
The university's research repository holds 4,375 works by its faculty, researchers and students, open to everyone.
Subjects with the most works
Source: library.mnums.edu.mn, as of 9 October 2026
Research infrastructure
- Institutes and laboratories3 research institutes and 2 accredited laboratories
- Clinical Skills CentreSimulation-based clinical training, School of Medicine
- Experimental Surgery CentreVascular, gastric, bowel and microsurgery training
- Robotic Surgery Training CentreOpened 9 September 2026
- Intellectual property494 items with registered rights
- “Health Sciences” journalThe university's research journal
Robot-assisted knee replacement surgery
Surgeons of the Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery Department at the MNUMS Mongolia-Japan Hospital now perform robot-assisted knee replacement on their own. The technology was first introduced in Mongolia in 2023 at the same hospital, together with specialists of the Korean company CUREXO, when 5 patients were operated on; since 2026 the hospital's own team carries it out.
The robot calculates pre-operative planning, bone resection, implant position and joint balance with high precision.
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