Sofija Ignjatović

Sofija Ignjatović completed her B.Sc. degree at the Faculty of Biology at the University of Belgrade in 2022, with an average grade of 9.00. In the same year, she enrolled in the Master’s program of Experimental biomedicine, and her Master thesis was done in the Group for Gene Regulation in Tumors at the Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering. Sofija defended her Master thesis, “The expression analysis of transcript PHF19-207 in colon cancer cell lines” in September of 2023, and completed her M.Sc. degree with an average grade of 9.83. In October of 2023, she enrolled in the Ph.D. program of Molecular Biomedicine and obtained the title Junior Research Assistant. In December of 2023, Sofija got employed at the Institute for biological research “Siniša Stanković” in the Department of Biochemistry where she will complete her doctoral dissertation. Ph.D. thesis will be completed within the STRIMHealth project (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-02-01, proposal number: 101159400) and the aim is to find new, non-invasive biomarkers, as well as potential drugs in the fight against Metabolic dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD).