Ryszard Gryglewski, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Ryszard Gryglewski

Polish pharmacologist

Date of Birth: 04-Aug-1932

Place of Birth: Vilnius, Vilnius County, Lithuania

Profession: physician, pharmacologist

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Ryszard Jerzy Gryglewski (born 4 August 1932 in Wilno) is a Polish pharmacologist and physician.
Member of the Polish Academy of Learning (PAU) and the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN).Gryglewski graduated in Medicine in Kraków, where he also wrote his doctorate in Pharmacology and in 1971 became a professor.
He is a member of many pharmacological associations around the world, and since 1993 president of the Jagiellonian Medical Research Centre (Jagiellonskie Centrum Badan Medycznych). His scientific work concerns experimental pharmacology.
His research focuses on the contribution of the blood-vascular system in building up immunity against thrombosis in the development of sclerosis.
In 1976, together with S.
Bunting, J.
Vane and S.
Moncada, he discovered prostacyclin, which set off many further scientific discoveries.