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INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS
AND GENETIC ENGINEERING
University of Belgrade

Vesna Spasovski

Associate Research Professor
Laboratory for Molecular Biomedicine
Group for Rare Disease Research and Therapeutics Development

Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering (IMGGE),
University of Belgrade (UB)

Vojvode Stepe 444a, 11042 Belgrade 152, Serbia
Mobile:     +381 65 3976445                          
Phone:     +381 11 3976445
Fax:         +381 11 397 58 08
E-mail: vesna.spasovski@imgge.bg.ac.rs

EDUCATION

2012 - PhD in Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade (Molecular mechanisms of pathogenesis of myeloproliferative neoplasms: deregulation of genes involved in cell proliferation and apoptosis)
1997 - B.Sc. in Molecular Biology and physiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2022 – 2023 - Research Training, Laboratory for biophysics, Health faculty, Ljubljana
2019 -            - Associate Research Professor, Laboratory for molecular biomedicine (LMB), Group for rare disease research and therapeutics development, IMGGI, UB
2013 - 2018 - Research Associate, LMB, IMGGE
2010 - 2013 - Research Assistant, LMB, IMGGE
2009 - 2010 - Research Trainee, LMB, IMGGE
2001 - 2002 - Research Training Laboratory for Neurobiology, Max Plank Institute, Munich

OTHER ACTIVITIES

Since 2017 - Member of the Sector for Technology Transfer, IMGGE
Since 2020 - Teaching experience at the postgraduate course at the Faculty of Biology, UB, Subject: “Genes and human diseases”
2010 - 2020 - Teaching experience at postgraduate courses in Molecular biology at the Faculty of Biology, UB, Subjects: “Molecular genetics in diagnostics, prevention and therapy of human diseases” and “Personalized Medicine and Pharmacogenetics”
2020 - 2021 - Participant in PoC project - “Analysis of the synergistic effect and therapeutic potential of small molecules in patients with recurrent pulmonary infections” (Innovation fond, Republic of Serbia, PoC 5269)
2011 - 2019 - Work Package Leader „Rare diseases in orthopedics: molecular basis of Perthes disease“ in project „ Rare diseases: Molecular Pathophysiology, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Modalities and Social, Ethical and Legal Aspects “ (MESTD RS, III 41004)
2011 - Work Package Leader, Researchers night “RENIFEVER” (EU, CSA-SA, FP7-PEOPLE-2011-NIGHT-287432)
2009 - 2015 - Participant in science popularization projects “Little School of DNAlogy” organized by MESTD)
1998 - 2001 - Scholarship recipient from Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development (MESTD), Republic of Serbia, IMGGE, UB

RESEARCH INTEREST

Development of innovative therapeutics based on stem cells and their application in veterinary and human medicine. Research in the field of molecular biomedicine with a focus on the molecular-genetic basis of rare diseases, with special interest in the genetic basis of rare orthopedic, rheumatological and pulmonary diseases. Identification of genetic variants underlying complex diseases, understanding the genotype - phenotype correlation, discovery of biomarkers for more accurate prediction of disease severity. Development of new diagnostic procedures for rare diseases.

PUBLICATIONS

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