Education Background
Master of Pharmacy: Year: 2012 Institution: Faculty of Medical Sciences, Department of Pharmacy, University of Kragujevac, PhD: Years: 2012-2015 Institution: Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac, Serbia Field: Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology Thesis: Preconditioning of isolated heart with ischemia and proton pump inhibitors: effects on cardiodynamic and coronary flow Fellowship (Residency Program): Medical Biochemistry / 4th year
Organizational Activities
2009: Active participant, Member of the Organizing Committee of 2nd Congress of Physiological Science of Serbia with international participation. Current trends in Physiological Science. Kragujevac, Serbia, September 17-20. 2013: Active participant, Member of the Organizing Committee of Bilateral Scientific Conference “New Frontiers in Physiological Sciences – from scientific truth via friendship to the art”, Kovacica, Serbia, June 20-23. 2014: Active participant, Member of the Organizing Committee of 3rd Congress of Physiological Sciences of Serbia with International Participation, Belgrade, Serbia, October 29-31. 2015: Active participant, Member of the Organizing Committee of 2nd European Section Meeting of the International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences, Belgrade, Serbia, October 8-10. 2018: 4th Congress of Physiological Sciences of Serbia with International Participation: “Current Trends in Physiological Sciences: From Cell Signals to the Biology of Aging” (September 19-23, 2018, Faculty of Medicine, University of Niš, Niš, Republic of Serbia). 8th International Congress of Pathophysiology (satellite symposium): “OXIDATIVE STRESS IN HEALTH AND DISEASE: FROM BASIC SCIENCE TO APPLIED INVESTIGATIONS” (September 2-3, 2018, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac). 2019: Third Joint Meeting of National Physiological Societies from Slovakia and Serbia “Health Risk, Nutrition and Dietary Supplements: Oxidative Stress and Polyphenols in the Heart of Serbian Wineries” (Topola – Oplenac, Serbia, June 20-22, 2019). 6th Meeting of European Section and 7th Meeting of North American Section of the IACS (Vrnjacka Banja/Serbia, September 11-14, 2019).
Academic Employment
2013-2015: Assistant Trainee on Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac. 2015-2017: Assistant on Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac. 2017-2022: Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia. 2022-Present: Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia. 2016-2018: Post Doctoral Associate, Department of Physiology, University of Louisville, KY, USA. 2018-Present: Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, University of Louisville, KY, USA.
Awards
2024: The charter of the University of Saint Sava to the Center of Excellence for the study of redox balance in cardiovascular and metabolic disorders, University of Kragujevac. 2022: The best female scientist at Faculty of Medical Science according to University of Kragujevac. 2017: Travel Award 4th European Section Meeting of the International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences, Pecs, Hungary. 2017: Meritorious Postdoctoral Fellow Poster Presentation Award – Kentucky Chapter of the American Physiological Society, Bowling Green, KY. 2016: Travel Award – 3rd European Section Meeting of the International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences, Marseille, France.
Memberships
Member of the American Heart Association, affiliated with the Hypertension Council (Membership No. 218487890) (2016-2018). Member of Serbian Physiological Society. Member of the American Physiological Society (2016-2018).
Mentoring
PhD Candidate: Jovana Jeremic, MS Pharm. Thesis: Cardioprotective effects of diallyl trisulfide on ischemic-reperfusion injury of isolated rat heart with metabolic syndrome: the role of oxidative stress Date of PhD Defense: 12/27/2019 (co-mentorship with Dr. Tyagi) PhD Candidate: Dragana Stanisic, DD Thesis: Effects of probiotic (Lactobacillus Rhamnosus) on parodontopathy in mice with hyperhomocysteinemia: role of dysbiosis Date of PhD Defense: 09/24/2021 (co-mentorship with Dr. Tyagi) PhD Candidate: Marina Nikolic Thesis: The role of the combined administration of the AT 1 receptor antagonist and neprilysin inhibitor in the promotion of browning in an experimental model of the metabolic syndrome and in silico identification of signaling pathways Date of PhD Defense: in process (co-mentorship with Dr. Jakovljevic) Mentor of 9 master theses for Pharmacy students in the field of pharmaceutical chemistry.
Reviewing
Serbian Journal of Experimental and Clinical Research. Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity. Scientific Reports. Aging. Editor for Special Issue in Frontiers of Physiology.
Guest Editor
Pathophysiology – Special Issue “Cardiovascular Physiology and Haemodynamics: Haemodynamic Optimization”. Frontiers in Physiology – “Exercise in the Prevention and Treatment of Cardiovascular Diseases”.