+385 1 45 66 942
dorotea.zuzic@mef.hr
Acting Head of Department
Associate Professor Mirza Žižak, MD, PhD
Department Secretary
izv. prof. dr. sc. Vesna Lukinović Škudar
Mandatory courses (Integrated undergraduate and graduate studies in medicine)
- Physiology, in Croatian (Prof. Aleksandra Dugandžić, MD, PhD; Prof. Vladiana Crljen, MD, PhD)
- Immunology, in Croatian (Prof. Vesna Lukinović-Škudar; Asst. Prof. Hrvoje Lalić, MD, PhD)
- Physiology, in English (Prof. Vladiana Crljen, MD, PhD; Asst. Prof. Nikola Habek, MD, PhD)
- Immunology, in English (Prof. Vesna Lukinović-Škudar, MD; PhD; Asst. Prof. Alan Šućur, MD, PhD)
Non mandatory courses (Integrated undergraduate and graduate studies in medicine)
- Body fluids and edema (leader prof. Aida Salihagić Kadić, MD, PhD)
- Nerve signal in diseases of signal generation and transmission (leader prof. Mirza Žižak, MD, PhD)
- Stress and the brain (leader prof Vladiana Crljen, MD, PhD)
- Transplantation reaction (leader asst. prof. Hrvoje Lalić, MD, PhD)
Postgraduate studies
- Fetal and neonatal neurophysiology, fetal behavior (leaders prof. Aida Salihagić Kadić, MD, PhD; prof. Vlatka Bošnjak Mejaški, MD, PhD) - Doctoral study Biomedicine and health and doctoral study Neuroscience
- In vivo and in vitro research methods (leader prof. Dora Višnjić, MD, PhD) - Doctoral study Biomedicine and health
- Cell cycle analysis (leader prof. Dora Višnjić, MD, PhD) - Doctoral study Neuroscience
- Selected chapters from transplantation immunology (leader prof. Danka Grčević, MD, PhD) - Doctoral study Biomedicine and health
- Course Immunology (leader prof. Danka Grčević, MD, PhD) – Postgraduate specialist study Clinical Microbiology
- Postgraduate specialist study Laboratory Immunology (leader prof. Danka Grčević, MD, PhD)
- Electrophysiological methods in medical research (leaders prof. Aleksandra Dugandžić, MD, PhD; prof Diana Belić Brkljačić, MD, PhD) - Doctoral study Biomedicine and health
- Introduction to Patch-clamp methods (leader prof. Aleksandra Dugandžić, MD, PhD) - Doctoral study Neuroscience
- Cellular neurophysiology (leader prof. Aleksandra Dugandžić, MD, PhD) - Doctoral study Neuroscience
- How to study of membrane proteins in expression systems (leader prof. Aleksandra Dugandžić, MD, PhD) - Doctoral study Neuroscience
- Fluorescence methods in biomedical research (leader prof. Aleksandra Dugandžić, MD, PhD) - Doctoral study Neuroscience
- Telemedicine (leaders academician Davor Miličić, prof. Mirza Žižak, MD, PhD) - Doctoral study Biomedicine and Health Sciences
- Immunocytokines (leader prof. Tomislav Kelava, MD, PhD) - Doctoral study Biomedicine and health
- Selected chapters of physiology of the urogenital system for urologists (leader prof Vladiana Crljen MD, PhD) – Postgraduate specialist study Urology
Scientific research projects
International Grants
- Enhancing digital readiness, resilience and capacity of HE through purposeful use of innovative digital pedagogies, tools and learning design (LD) - I-LED, Erasmus +, PI-collaborator prof. Mirza Žižak, MD, PhD)
- Pilot e-university project, EU grant (PI prof. Mirza Žižak, MD, PhD)
- Mechanisms of anti-leukemic effects of stearoyl-CoA desaturase (SCD) inhibition (PI asst. prof. Vilma Dembitz, MD, PhD) - Lady Tata Memorial Trust - International Award for Research in Leukaemia
Croatian Science Foundation Research Projects
- Signalling mechanisms and metabolic changes in the differentiation of acute myeloid leukaemia cells (PI prof. Dora Višnjić, MD, PhD)
- The role of the Notch signalling pathway in the pathogenesis of liver fibrosis (PI prof. Tomislav Kelava, MD, PhD)
University Grants
- Effects of bone marrow stroma on leukemic cell differentiation (Pl prof. Dora Višnjić, MD, PhD)
- Activation and differentiation of myeloid trilineage progenitor in arthritis (Pl prof. Danka Grčević, MD, PhD)
- Expression of uroguanylin in the prefrontal cortex of the human brain (Pl prof. Aleksandra Dugandžić, MD, PhD)
- Development and evaluation of targeted albumin nanoparticles for targeted delivery of therapeutics to monocytes in rheumatoid arthritis (PI asst. prof. Alan Šućur, MD, PhD)
- Development and evaluation of MR-compatible, multichannel EEG electrodes for precise recording of brain activity in experimental animals (PI asst. prof. Nikola Habek, MD, PhD)
TEACHING STAFF AND TEACHING ASSOCIATES
izv. prof. dr. sc. Vladiana Crljen
prof. dr. sc. Aleksandra Dugandžić
dr. sc. Maša Filipović
prof. dr. sc. Danka Grčević
doc. dr. sc. Nikola Habek
prof. dr. sc. Tomislav Kelava
doc. dr. sc. Hrvoje Lalić
izv. prof. dr. sc. Vesna Lukinović Škudar
doc. dr. sc. Ljiljana Poljak
doc. dr. sc. Marija Renić
prof. dr. sc. Aida Salihagić Kadić
doc. dr. sc. Alan Šućur
doc. dr. sc. Vilma Tomić Dembitz
prof. dr. sc. Dora Višnjić
izv. prof. dr. sc. Mirza Žižak
MD, PhD, senior assistant, darja.flegar@mef.hr
ASSOCIATES
Sara Aničić, dr. med.
Tin Luka Petanjek, dr. med.
dr. sc. Tomislav Smoljo
Expert and technical staff
Senior laboratory technicians
Dora Brauneger, dipl. ing.
Ivana Škledar
Martina Šoljić
Dorotea Žužić
Support staff
Zore Glibo
Anđelka Ivančić
Irena Pecigoš
Željka Pinko