Dr. Marina Radovanović

Marina gained her Master’s (M.Sc.) in Molecular Biology and Physiology (2010), as well as her Ph.D. degree in 2016 at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Biology.

Her most relevant scientific interests include molecular pathophysiology of obesity, insulin and leptin resistance, inflammation and comorbidities of the Metabolic and Polycystic Ovary syndromes, including the influence of the variations in ecology, genetic and metabolic features of the gut microbiome in these diseases. Her latest publications review the epidemiological, therapeutic and molecular aspects of antimicrobial resistance, including the potential influence of the presence of its genetic markers in probiotic bacteria on the gut microbiome ecology and antibiotic resistance.

Marina has continuously been an employee of the Institute for Biological Research ""Siniša Stanković"", National Institute of the Republic of Serbia since 2011, although, she shortly occupied а remote scientific writer position at Cambridge Cell net Ltd., Novi Sad.

To this day, she actively participated in the realization of one national project titled “The Role of Steroid Hormones in the Neuroendocrine Adaptation to Stress and Pathophysiology of the Metabolic Syndrome – Molecular Mechanisms and Clinical Implications” (2011-2019), as well as in the international project financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation (Berne, CH) called “Interactions between stress and dietary fructose in the development of the metabolic syndrome: role of glucocorticoids” (2014-2017). Starting from June 2024, her involvement in HORIZON-WIDERA-2023 Twinning project named „Strengthening Translational Research for Improved Metabolic Health” (acronym: STRIMHealth, proposal No 101159400) is planned.

Marina is an active member of the Serbian Society for Molecular Biology (MolBioS) as well as of the Serbian Biochemical Society.