The Department of Pathophysiology of Ageing and Civilization Diseases was established by the order of His Magnificence Rector of PUMS Professor Andrzej Tykarski MD, PhD (Rector’s order no. 100/2020 from 10th September 2020). The unit derives from the Laboratory of Molecular Basis of Civilization Diseases and by organisational structure it belongs to the Department of Hypertensiology on Faculty of Medicine. At present the Head of Department is Professor Krzysztof Książek PhD, DSc., who was the main innitiator of raising the Department.