Pavle Trpinac

Pavle Trpinac (Novi Sad, Austria-Hungary, 27 June 1905 - Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia, 1991) was a Serbian chemist and professor at the University of Belgrade. 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. 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.

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". 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. After the founding of the Faculty of Pharmacy in Belgrade, Assistant Professor Trpinac was appointed associate professor of Biochemistry in 1946.

When Professor Petar Matavulj died in 1948, Professor Trpinac became the director of the Chemical Institute of the Faculty of Medicine, as well as the director of the Institute of Biochemistry of the Faculty of Pharmacy. He transferred to the Faculty of Medicine in 1958, and the following year he was elected a full professor.

Selected papers Reich, W.S., Trpinac, P .: Sur les appelées „Amidon soluble“. Bulletin de la Société Chimique de France 1937; 4: 1921. Trpinac, P .: The dehydration of sulfhydryl groups for the activity of glyceric aldehyde dehydration. Compts Rendus des séances de la Société de Biologie 1939; CXXXI: 24. Rapkine, L., Rapkine, S., Trpinac, P .: Effect of protection of the cosimase on the sulfhydryls groups of dehydrates. Assets of the sessions of the Academy of Sciences 1939; 209: 253. Trpinac, P., Bugarski, O .: Immunoelectrophoresis. Archives of Pharmacy 1959; 5: 257. Pavlović, V., Trpinac, P .: Application of periodic oxidation for the study of dextran structure. 1962 Review