[1][2][3] The incumbent director of the National University Hospital is Dr. Abdel Ghani Al-Shalabi, who assumed the position on December 24, 2024.

Analyses performed by the hospital lab include hormonal, immune, tumor, pharmaceutical, and lymphatic tests/ It has a stem cell bank.

It is used to train students and graduate doctors from Syrian universities and contributes to scientific research.

[citation needed] The hospital contains 645 beds, 36 of which are for intensive care, and has a special emergency ward for internal diseases.

[5] The faculty of medicine at Damascus and the National University Hospital carry out research into oncology, which increased during the Syrian crisis.