On 5 July, 2010 took place the inauguration of a summer course called "Pearl Divers". It is the fifth edition of the JU project, the aim of which is to discover young talented people.

Salmonella bacteria may help cancer victims in future. A breakthrough anticancer therapy developed by JU scientists received the title of the Polish Product of the Future in the category of "Technology of the Future in the Implementation Stage" on June 23, 2010. The therapy is based on a modified strain of Salmonella bacteria, which penetrate the cancer tumor and destroy it

The Polish Academy of Arts granted the 2010 awards of the Class V of Medicine. The 2010 Tadeusz Browicz award was granted to professor Józef Dulak and professor Alicja Józkowicz from the JU Department of Medical Biotechnology of the Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology for "unique and innovative research into the role of heme oxygenase in the process of blood vessels growth."

June 18th, 2010 marked the end of the 13th edition of the annual course in German Law organised by the Jagiellonan University in co-operation with the Ruprecht-Karls University in Heidelberg and the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. It was honoured by Prof. Peter Michael Huber, the Minister of the Interior of Thuringia who delivered a guest lecture entitled ‘The Renaissance of the State.'

The competion was on recalibrating credit scoring on the basis of biased data. Grzegorz Harańczyk beat many competitors from leading international academic centers and data mining companies.

Professor Janusz Kozłowski, an eminent archeologists from the JU Institute of Archeology, was chosen the president of the International Union of Academies (Union Academique Internationale), one of the most important academic institutions in the world.

The JU faculty of Medicine was given the award for outstanding achievements in the EU Framework Program in 1999-2009. The award, granted by the EU National Contact Point in Poland , was accompanied by a diploma signed by Waldemar Pawlak, the deputy prime minister of Poland and prof. Barbara Kudrycka, the Minister of Science and Higher Education