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Medical Biology

Šalata 3, 10000 Zagreb

Head of Department

Deputy Head of Department

prof. dr. sc. Nives Pećina-Šlaus

Assistant Head of Department

prof. dr. sc. Nataša Jovanov Milošević

Department Secretary

prof. dr. sc. Tamara Nikuševa Martić

Mandatory courses (Integrated undergraduate and graduate studies of medicine)

  • Medical and Molecular Biology, in Croatian 
  • Medical and Molecular Biology, in English
  • Medical Genetics

Elective courses (Integrated undergraduate and graduate studies of medicine)

  • Molecular Biology in Medicine
  • Where is the Line Between Embryogenesis and Carcinogenesis?
  • Eukaryotic Genome
  • Functional Aspects of Smoking
  • Human and Environment
Postgraduate studies
  • Methods of Molecular Biology in Medicine
  • Epigenetics
  • Genome Instability
  • Genetic Basis of Brain Tumours 
  • Tumour Cell Genome

Scientific Research Projects

2023-2025 Analysis of EMT-related Protein Biomarkers in Different Benign and Malignant Brain Tumours; Croatian-Slovenian cooperation research projects of the Ministry of Science and Education (Principal investigator: Nives Pećina-Šlaus; Collaborators: Anja Kafka and Anja Bukovac)

2023-2026 COGITO; Croatian-French cooperation research project of the Ministry of Science and Education (Collaborator: Nataša Jovanov Milošević)

2022-2025 Implementation Network Europe for Cancer Survivorship Care (INE-CSC); COST Action CA21152 (Collaborator: Nives Pećina-Šlaus)

2021-2022 Wnt Signalosome and Degradosome in Human Brain Tumours; University of Zagreb grant (Principal investigator: Nives Pećina-Šlaus; Collaborators: Anja Kafka, Anja Bukovac, Goran Mrak)

2023-2024 Association of Methylation Status of MGMT Transferase with the Malfunctioning of Postreplication MMR Repair in Human Glioblastoma (Principal investigator: Nives Pećina-Šlaus; Collaborators: Anja Kafka, Anja Bukovac, Goran Mrak)

2022-2023 Epigenetic Changes and SUFU Protein Expression in Serous Ovarian Cancers; University of Zagreb grant (Principal investigator: Ljiljana Šerman, Collaborator: Valentina Karin-Kujundžić)

2023 Center for Psychological Help; Permanent project of the nongovernmental association Everything for Her (Collaborator: Ljiljana Šerman)

2022-2023 Strengthen, Help - a Community of Sailors; National Foundation for the Development of Civil Society, European Social Fund (Collaborator: Ljiljana Šerman)

2022-2023 Differentiation of the Cerebral Cortex Layers of the Frontal Lobe in the Development of the Human Brain; University of Zagreb grant (Principal investigator: Nataša Jovanov Milošević; Collaborator: Mihaela Bobić Rasonja)

2022-2023 Regulators of Chromatin Dynamics in Male Meiosis; University of Zagreb grant (Principal investigator: Ana Katušić Bojanac)

2022-2023 Wnt5a Protein Expression in Diffuse Gastric Carcinomas; University of Zagreb grant (Principal investigator: Tamara Nikuševa Martić)

2022-2024 Molecular Mechanisms of Vasoplegia and Coagulopathies Associated with LVAD Left Heart Support; University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Department of Surgery, NY, USA (Collaborator: Frane Paić)

2021-2025 ANDRONET; COST Action (co-leader of the working group for research coordination, member of the Board of Directors, and Collaborator: Ana Katušić Bojanac)

2021-2025 Project of Career Development of Young Researchers - Training of New PhDs; Croatian Science Foundation (Principal Investigator: Nataša Jovanov Milošević)

2020-2024 Brain Extracellular Matrix in Development and Perinatal Hypoxia; Croatian Science Foundation (Principal investigator: Nataša Jovanov Milošević; Collaborator: Mihaela Bobić Rasonja)

2020-2023 Synergy of Molecular Markers and Multimodal In Vivo Imaging in Preclinical Assessment of the Consequences of Ischemic Stroke (SineMozak), KK.01.1.1.07.0071; European Fund for Regional Development (Collaborator: Nives Pećina-Šlaus)

2020-2023 Empowerment for Social Rehabilitation and Reintegration of Cancer

Patients; Ministry of Labour, Pension System, Family, and Social Policy (Collaborator: Ljiljana Šerman)

2019-2023 Project of Career Development of Young Researchers - Training of New PhDs; Croatian Science Foundation (Principal investigator: Ana Katušić Bojanac)

2017-2023 Reproductive and Regenerative Medicine - Research of New Platforms and Potential, KK.01.1.1.01.0008; Scientific Center of Excellence for Reproductive and Regenerative Medicine (CERRM), Unit for Biomedical Research on Reproduction and Development; European Fund for Regional Development (Collaborators: Ljiljana Šerman, Ana Katušić Bojanac, Tamara Nikuševa Martić, and Valentina Karin-Kujundžić)

2017-2023 Experimental and Clinical Research of Hypoxic-ischemic Injury in Perinatal and Adult Age", KK.01.1.1.01.0007; Scientific Center of Excellence for Basic, Clinical and Translational Neuroscience (ZCI-Neuro); European Fund for Regional Development (Collaborators: Nives Pećina-Šlaus, Nataša Jovanov Milošević, Mihaela Bobić Rasonja, Anja Kafka, and Anja Bukovac)

2017-2022 NeuroMIG; WG2-MRI; COST Action CA16118 (member of the Board of Directors: Nataša Jovanov Milošević)

2023-2024 Perinatal Development of the Cortical Zones and Layers in Health and Disease; University of Zagreb grant (Principal investigator: Nataša Jovanov Milošević; Collaborators: Mihaela Bobić Rasonja and Matea Drlje)

TEACHING STAFF AND TEACHING ASSOCIATES

prof. dr. sc. Nataša Jovanov Milošević

prof. dr. sc. Nives Pećina-Šlaus

prof. dr. sc. Tamara Nikuševa Martić

prof. dr. sc. Ljiljana Šerman

izv. prof. dr. sc. Ana Katušić Bojanac

izv. prof. dr. sc. Frane Paić

izv. prof. dr. sc. Nino Sinčić

doc. dr. sc. Anja Kafka

dr. sc. Anja Bukovac

dr. sc. Valentina Karin Kujundžić

dr. sc. Mihaela Bobić Rasonja

TECHNICAL STAFF

Mariana Dragojević

Milan Kopač

ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY

Marija Šestak

SUPPORT STAFF

Renata Rešetar

Matea Ribić

Suzana Ribić