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Head of Department
Prof. dr. sc. Zdravko Petanjek
Deputy Head of Department
izv. prof. dr. sc. Ana Hladnik
Mandatory courses (Integrated undergraduate and graduate studies of medicine)
- Anatomy, in Croatian (Prof. Zdravko Petanjek, MD, PhD/Asst. Prof. Ana Hladnik, MD, PhD)
- Anatomy and Clinical Anatomy, in English (Prof. Vedran Katavić, MD, PhD and Prof. Nataša Kovačić, MD, PhD)
Elective courses (Integrated undergraduate and graduate studies of medicine)
- Comparative Anatomy (Prof. Dubravko Jalšovec, MD, PhD)
- Pain Mechanisms (Prof. Zdravko Petanjek, MD, PhD/Asst. Prof. Sanja Darmopil, MD, PhD)
- Bone – Molecular Biology at the Patient’s Bedside (Prof. Vesna Kušec, MD, PhD/Prof. Vedran Katavić, MD, PhD)
Postgraduate studies
- Bone Morphogenetic Proteins in Bone and Cartilage Regeneration (Academician Slobodan Vukičević/Prof. Mislav Jelić, MD, PhD) – PhD Programme Biomedicine and Health
- Functional Anatomy of the Locomotor System (Prof. Vedran Katavić, MD, PhD) – Postgraduate specialist study Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Proteomics in Biomedical Research (Prof. Lovorka Grgurević, MD, PhD) – PhD Programme Biomedicine and Health
- Selected Chapters in Anatomy of Urogenital System (Prof. Zdravko Petanjek, MD, PhD) – Postgraduate specialist study Urology
- Neuroscience and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (Prof. Zdravko Petanjek, MD, PhD) – Postgraduate specialist study Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Introduction to Neurobiology (dr.sc. Monique Esclapez/Prof. Zdravko Petanjek, MD, PhD) – PhD Programme Neuroscience
- Methods of Neuronal Reconstruction and Stereology (Prof. Zdravko Petanjek, MD, PhD/Prof. Goran Šimić, MD, PhD) – PhD Programme Neuroscience
- Cognitive Flexibility and Orbital Prefrontal Cerebral Cortex (Prof. Harry BM Uylings, MD, PhD/Prof. Zdravko Petanjek, MD, PhD) – PhD Programme Neuroscience
- Experimental Models of Epilepsy and the Role of GABA in the Development of the Cerebral Cortex (Monique Esclapez, PhD/Prof. Zdravko Petanjek, MD, PhD) – PhD Programme Neuroscience
- Precise Identification of Cortical Fields in the Adult Human Brain In-vivo (Prof. Zdravko Petanjek, MD, PhD) – PhD Programme Neuroscience
- Selected Chapters in Transplantation Immunology (Prof. Nataša Kovačić, MD, PhD/Prof. Danka Grčević, MD, PhD) – PhD Programme Biomedicine and Health
- Genomic Approaches in Biomedical and Translational Research (Prof. Fran Borovečki, MD, PhD) – PhD Programme Biomedicine and Health
Scientific research projects
Erasmus + projects
Medical Education: Reaching for Quality Management Tools to Teach Human Anatomy Effectively in a Multicultural and Multilingual Learning Space (Principal investigator: Asst. Prof. Ana Hladnik, MD, PhD)
Surgery Collaborative and Long-term Practical Experience Learning - SCaLPEL (Principal investigator: Prof. Zdravko Petanjek, MD, PhD)
H2020
OSTEOproSPINE (Principal investigator: Academician Slobodan Vukičević)
Research projects of the Croatian Science Foundation
The Role of the Blood-Brain Barrier, Innate Immunity and Oligomerization of Tau Protein in the Pathogenesis of Alzheimer's Disease (Principal investigator: Prof. Goran Šimić, MD, PhD)
Molecular Mechanisms of Immune Response and Activation of Inflammasomes in Parkinson's Disease (Principal investigator: Prof. Fran Borovečki, MD, PhD)
Influence of Bone Morphogenetic Protein 3 (BMP3) on Bone Regeneration – BON3gen (Principal investigator: Igor Erjavec, MD, PhD)
Bilateral projects
French-Croatian partnership Program Hubert Curien Cogito - Functional and Molecular Characteristics of Calretinin Neurons in Primates
Teaching staff and teaching associates
prof. dr. sc. Zdravko Petanjek
redoviti profesor u trajnom zvanju
zdravko.petanjek@mef.hr
izv. prof. dr. sc. Ana Hladnik
prof. dr. sc. Dubravko Jalšovec
prof. dr. sc. Lovorka Grgurević
prof. dr. sc. Vedran Katavić
prof. dr. sc. Nataša Kovačić
doc. dr. sc. Ivana Bičanić
doc. dr. sc. Sanja Darmopil
doc. dr. sc. Antonela Blažeković
dr. sc. Dora Sedmak
dr. sc. Igor Erjavec
dr. sc. Vinka Knezović
dr. sc. Ivan Banovac
dr. sc. Nikola Štoković
Goran Ivkić, dr. med.
Andrea Blažević, dr. med.
Matija Vid Prkačin, dr. med.
prof. dr. sc. Fran Borovečki
prof. dr. sc. Miloš Judaš
prof. dr. sc. Goran Šimić
dr. sc. Borki Vučetić
dr. sc. Dino Papeš
Akademik Slobodan Vukičević
External Associates
prof. dr. sc. Ivan Vinter
dr. sc. Ana Aljinović
Fadi Almahariq, dr. med.
Darko Orešković, dr. med.
Josip Jaman, dr. med.
Petra Čerina, dr. med.
Yannick Mudrovčić, dr. med.
Department Secretary
dr. sc. Ivan Banovac
Assistant Head of Department for Medical Studies in English
prof. dr. sc. Vedran Katavić
prof. dr. sc. Nataša Kovačić
LMS Coordinator
prof. dr. sc. Nataša Kovačić
Assistant Head of Department for the Donation Program and organization of professional courses
doc. dr. sc. Antonela Blažeković
Support staff
Lidija Lugarić
Ljiljana Dujmović
Ružica Čusak
Željko Dujmović
Stjepan Lugarić
Milan Ilčić
Jurica Puklin
Expert and technical staff
Administrative Secretaries
Romana Blažek
Ivančica Bastalić
Laboratory Technicians
Đurđica Car, Mirjana Marija Renić i Katerina Zrinski Petrović