ABSTRACT
It was 50 years ago next February that I started working in this department. Originally, we were in a 100-year-old building and we moved about 20 years ago to this new research tower in the Semmelweis University. In 1949, when I passed my examination in pharmacology, I was asked by the professor of pharmacology, Professor Bela Issekutz, who was the leading pharmacologist in Hungary, whether I was interested in coming to work in his department. His department was a very famous department, so I was more than happy to accept. I got my MD in 1951 but in the last 2 years of this I was more in the department than in the university and I neglected my studies to the point where I was worried I might fail my MD.
