Pavle Trpinac information

Pavle Trpinac (Novi Sad, Austria-Hungary, 27 June 1905 - Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia, 1991) was a Serbian chemist and professor at the University of Belgrade.^[1] His niece was poet Mira Alečković.

Pavle Trpinac is best remembered for heading the teaching staff of the Biochemistry classes at the Department of Pharmaceutics in Belgrade from 1946 until his retirement. He was present when the Section for Sanitary Chemistry, combining medical biochemists, sanitary chemists and toxicologists, was founded in Belgrade on 1 January 1951. Later, that same section became the Serbian Section for Medical Biochemistry and Pavle Trpinac was appointed its first president.^[2] In 1960 when the Faculty of Medicine was established at the University of Niš, the first generation of students at the new faculty was taught by Dr. Pavle Trpinac.^[3]

Trpinac investigated soluble starch and sulfhydryl "(mercapto) group of proteins in the activity of dehydrogenase and the protective effect of cosimase on the mercaptan group dehydrogenase".^[4] His other research and scientific papers written and published by himself or co-written with his colleagues are all connected to the study of Biochemistry in medicine.^[4]