University of Zagreb

School of Medicine

Integrated Undergraduate and Graduate Study of Medicine in Croatian language

• Medical Chemistry and Biochemistry I (Prof. Blaženka Foretić, PhD)
• Medical Chemistry and Biochemistry II (Assoc. Prof. Slavica Potočki, PhD)
• Clinical Biochemistry (Asst. Prof. Tamara Božina, PhD)

Integrated Undergraduate and Graduate Study of Medicine: Medical Studies in English

• Medical Chemistry and Biochemistry I (Asst. Prof. Igor Picek, PhD)
• Medical Chemistry and Biochemistry II (Prof. Svjetlana Kalanj Bognar, MD, PhD)
• Clinical Biochemistry (Prof. Daria Pašalić, PhD)

• Inorganic Compounds in Biological Processes (Prof. Jasna Lovrić, PhD)
• Nerve Cell from Health to Disease (Prof. Svjetlana Kalanj Bognar, MD, PhD, and Prof. Srećko Gajović, MD, PhD)
• Sphingolipids in Health and Disease (Assoc. Prof. Slavica Potočki, PhD)

PhD Programme Biomedicine and Health

• Biomedical methods in biomedical research (Prof. J. Lovrić, PhD, and Prof. D. Rogić, PhD)
• Molecular biology methods in medicine (Prof. J. Sertić, PhD, and Prof. T. Nikuševa Martić, PhD)
• Molecular and biochemical approach to genetic disorders (Prof. J. Sertić, PhD)

PhD Programme Biomedicine and Health in English

• Biochemical Methods in Biomedical Research (Prof. J. Lovrić, PhD, and Prof. D. Rogić, PhD) 
• Methods of molecular biology in medicine (Prof. J. Sertić, PhD, and Prof. T. Nikuševa Martić, PhD)

PhD programme Neuroscience

• The role of membrane lipids in neurodegeneration (Prof. S. Kalanj Bognar, MD, PhD)
• Glycolipidomics and sphingolipidomics of nervous system in health and malignant transformation (Prof. Ž. Vukelić, PhD)
• Properties of the diffuse neuroendocrine system (Prof. Ž. Vukelić, PhD, and Prof. D. Ježek, PhD)
•  Methods of RNA isolation from brain tissue (practicals) (Assoc. Prof. K. Mlinac Jerković, PhD)

Postgraduate specialist studies

Study: General Internal Medicine (Prof. V. Degoricija, MD, PhD)

• Laboratory methods in the diagnosis and monitoring of internal diseases (Prof. J. Sertić, PhD and Prof. N. Vrkić, PhD) 

Study: Laboratory Immunology (Prof. D. Batinić, MD, PhD)

• Analytical techniques and instruments in laboratory medicine (Prof. J. Sertić, PhD, and Prof. J. Lovrić, PhD)

Study: Transfusion Medicine

• Methods of molecular diagnostics (Prof. J. Sertić, PhD)

Study: Clinical Microbiology (Prof. B. Bedenić, MD, PhD)

• Selected chapters from biochemistry (Prof. J. Lovrić, PhD, and Prof. B. Foretić, PhD)

SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE

Department of Chemistry

Head: Prof. Jasna Lovrić, PhD

Department of Biochemistry

Head: Prof. Jasna Lovrić, PhD

Integrated Undergraduate and Graduate Study of Dental Medicine in Croatian Language

• Chemistry (Asst. Prof. V. Damjanović, PhD)
• Biochemistry (Asst. Prof. I. Karmelić, PhD)

Postgraduate Study of Dental Medicine in Croatian Language

• Oxidative stress (Prof. J. Lovrić, PhD)

Integrated Undergraduate and Graduate Study of Dental Medicine in English Language

• Chemistry (Asst. Prof. D. Fabris, PhD)
• Biochemistry (Assoc. Prof. K. Mlinac Jerković, PhD)

Postgraduate Study of Dental Medicine in English Language

• Oxidative stress (Prof. J. Lovrić, PhD)

Projects funded by the Croatian Science Foundation

• Pharmacogenomics in prediction of cardiovascular drugs adverse reaction (PGx-CardioDrug; UIP-2020-02-8189). 2020–2025. Principal investigator: T. Božina; Collaborators: L. Šimićević, J. Palić

• Young Researchers' Career Development Project – Training of Doctoral Students. (DOK-2018-09-7900), 2019–2023. Principal investigator: K. Mlinac Jerković; Collaborator: B. Puljko

Projects funded by the ADRIS Foundation

• Establishment of an innovative category of brain tumor and blood clot biomarkers using analysis of the sphingolipid profile, 2019–2024. Principal investigator: D. Fabris; Collaborator: Ž. Vukelić, S. Potočki, I. Karmelić

University of Zagreb Grants

• Blood clot and serum sphingolipidomics in ischemic stroke. 2023‒2024. Principal investigator: I. Karmelić, PhD; Collaborator: D. Fabris

• Structural identification of specific composition of glycolipids and sphingolipid metabolites as novel biomarkers of selected human brain tumor types – research continuation. 2023‒2024. Principal investigator: Ž. Vukelić; Collaborator: B. Foretić

• Gangliosides and sodium-potassium pump - old conundrums, new answers. 2023‒2024. Principal investigator: S. Kalanj Bognar; Collaborators: K. Mlinac Jerković, B. Puljko

• Supramolecular architectures of cyanoferrates(II/III) with the biologically important pyridinium aldoximes or pyridine amidoximes: structure-properties relationship. 2023‒2024. Principal investigator: V. Damjanović; Collaborators: J. Lovrić, D. Musija, I. Picek

• CYP450 gene polymorphisms as risk factors for direct oral anticoagulant therapy. 2023‒2024. Principal investigator: L. Šimičević; Collaborators: T. Božina, J. Palić

• The role of sphingolipid metabolites in the prediction of acute cardiovascular complications in patients with end-stage chronic kidney disease. 2023‒2024. Principal investigator: N. Bašić Jukić; Collaborators: D. Pašalić, S. Potočki

Project funded by the European Commission (ERA PerMed project)

• Artificial intelligence for personalised medicine in depression - analysis and harmonization of clinical research data for robust multimodal patient profiling for the prediction of therapy outcome (ArtiPro; I 5903). 2022–2024. Principal investigator: N. Božina; Collaborator: L. Šimičević

Project funded by the European Structural and Investment fund (Project IRI)

• Center for Genome Research in Oncology and Perinatology (KK.01.1.1.09.0004). 2021– Principal investigator: M. Novak, Collaborator: L. Šimičević

OTHER PROJECTS

Project funded by the European Social fund

• Internationalization in the area of higher education: EXPPAND – Introducing experimental pharmacology and pathology and organization of summer school Clinical nutrition and diet therapy 2019–2022. Principal investigator: D. Ježek; Collaborator: D. Pašalić

Full tenured professors

Full Professors

Associate Professors

Assistant Professors

Senior teaching assistant

Teaching assistant

PhD research assistants

Adjunct assistant professors

Teaching associates from other departments

Doc. dr. sc. Darija Vranešić Bender

Teaching associates from other institutions

Administrative secretary