We study the Drazin inverses of the sum and product of two elements in a ring. For Drazin invertible elements a and b such that a 2 b = aba and b 2 a = bab, it is shown that ab is Drazin invertible and that a + b is Drazin invertible if and only if 1 + a D b is Drazin invertible. Moreover, the formulae of (ab) D and (a + b) D are presented. Thus, a generalization of the main result of Zhuang, Chen et al. (Linear Multilinear Algebra 60 (2012) 903-910) is given. 1 The problem of Drazin inverse of the sum of two Drazin invertible elements was first considered by Drazin in his celebrated paper [7]. It was proved that (a + b) D = a D + b D under the condition that ab = ba = 0 in associative rings. It is well known that the product ab of two commutative Drazin invertible elements a, b is Drazin invertible and (ab) D = a D b D = b D a D in a ring. In 2011, Wei and Deng [12] considered the relations between the Drazin inverses of A + B and 1 + A D B for two commutative complex matrices A and B. For two commutative Drazin invertible elements a, b ∈ R,Zhuang, Chen et al. [16] proved that a + b is Drazin invertible if and only if 1 + a D b is Drazin invertible.Moreover, the representation of (a + b) D was obtained. More results on Drazin inverse can be found in [1][2][3][4][5][6]8,[11][12][13][14][15][16].