National Medicines Institute - latest history
National Institute of Public Health was established according to the Regulation of The Minister of Health on October the 1st 2002, as a result of a fusion of two independent units:
- Central Laboratory of Sera and Vaccines, acting in Warsaw in the years 1959 - 2002
- Drug Institute, acting in Warsaw in the years 1951 - 2002.
In May 2003 (19-22) meeting of representatives of European Official Medicines Control Laboratories (OMCL Meeting) was organized by National Institute of Public Health. It was the first OMCL meeting organized in the country outside the European Union.
Before the Director of National Institute of Public Health was appointed on February the 1st 2005 the following professors acted as managers:
Professor Waleria Hryniewicz from October the 1st 2002 to March 31st 2003,
Professor Elżbieta Anuszewska from April the 1st 2003 to September 30th 2003,
Professor Marian Sygit from October the 1st 2003 to January the 31st 2005.
On February the 1st 2005 professor Zbigniew E. Fijałek was nominated, by The Minister of Health, as the Director of The National Institute of Public Health.
On December the 8th 2006 the Institute was given the name of National Medicines Institute (according to the regulation of The Minister of Health from November the 3rd 2006)
