The history of the Department of Clinical Biochemistry in years 1971-2008

The Department of Biochemistry was established in 1970 as a part of Faculty of Basic Sciences at the Medical Centre of Postgraduate Education (MCPE). The same year Professor Stefan Niewiarowski, Ph.D. was established as a Head of the Department and started its organization in a newly built facility of MCPE in Warsaw at Marymoncka Street 99/103. In the middle of 1970 (after Prof. Niewiarowski´s departure to the USA), Dr. Bohdan Lipiński became the Head of the Department. In this period the main research area was focused on processes of coagulation, fibrynolysis system and disturbances of calcium metabolism (Dr. R. Lorenc, Dr. E. Marcinowska-Suchowierska, Dr. M. Szczepański). In 1971, after Dr. Bohdan Lipiński´s departure to the USA, Dr. Janusz Nauman took the position of the Head of the Department. Beside the hitherto area of interests there were new research groups created, working on thyroid metabolism and diagnostics of thyroid diseases. The research of the Department focused then on the effects of steroids on generalized Shwartzman reaction, calcium homeostasis in the kidney, isolation and characteristics of antibodies against thyroid hormones and radioimmuno-assays of thyroid hormones in blood. One of the results of the studies was analysis and description (in 1973, for the first time) of the „Low T3 Syndrome” in myocardial infarction. The other area of research focused on pathophysiology of Graves-Basedov Disease, clinical picture of infiltrative ophtalmopathy and the effect of catecholamines on peripheral metabolism of thyroid hormones. Another result of the work was scientific cooperation with groups of Prof. S. Lissitzky from Marseille (France), Prof. J. Wall from Montréal (Canada), Dr. D. Hesh from Hannover (Germany) and Dr. S. Porta from Graz (Austria).

Another field of the Department´s work was short- and long-term educational courses (Ph.D studies) for foreign scientists. The cooperation with European scientific centers resulted in postdoctoral visits of Dr. Grażyna Adler, Dr. Barbara Czarnocka in Marseille, Dr. Tomasz Kamiński in Hannover and Dr. Alicja Nauman and Dr. Janusz Nauman at the Columbia University in New York and NIH in Bethesda, USA. The identification of thyroid peroxidase (TPO) by Dr. B. Czarnocka as a microsomal antigen is one of the remarkable discovery of not only the Department but also of the whole Polish science. The article by Dr. Czarnocka is up today an often cited Polish medical publication in thyreology. The Department was v

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