Mirosław Jan Stasik

During this period he published one of the first clinical works devoted to acute toxicity of tetraethyllead in humans. This substance was commonly used as an antiknock agent in gasoline until 2005.

In 2001, together with his wife Dr Liliana Stasik, he set up the 4-COT Foundation, which sponsors studies of young Polish researchers in Western Europe and Canada.

Since 1997 he has been leading a branch of Societas Jablonoviana in Wiesbaden. This scientific society was founded in Leipzig in 1774 by a Polish aristocrat Józef A. Jabłonowski.

In the 1980s Stasik represented Hoechst at scientific conferences of the Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology (USA), as well as symposiums of the Center for Environmental Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh. These were organized in co-operation with the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

Since 1970 he has been living in Germany, with two breaks for training at the Institute of Toxicology of the University of Würzburg and for university study in the UK.

In the 1960s he completed his training in internal medicine, and became director of the newly created clinical department of acute poisoning at the Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine in Łódz. There he also pioneered in the field of poison control centers in Poland.

Mirosław Jan Stasik (born 27 January 1929 r. in Łódź) is a Polish medical doctor and research toxicologist.

Professor Klaus Norpoth in his handbook of occupational medicine mentions Mirosław Stasik for the discovery of the cancer risk of 4-COT as one of 15 international researchers, who over two centuries discovered occupational carcinogenic substances, starting from Percivall Pott (1775), through Ludwig Rehn (1895), John Creech and Maurice Johnson (1974) to Stasik (1987).