Dr. Danijela Maksimović-Ivanić

Danijela Maksimovic-Ivanic graduated in Molecular Biology and Physiology from the University of Belgrade (Serbia) in 1998. She obtained MSc in Immunology on Faculty for Biology, University of Belgrade in 2000, and at the same faculty she got PhD in Immunology in 2003. She is currently employed as a principal research fellow at Department of Immunology. She participated in three national, two innovation and four bilateral projects financed by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Republic of Serbia. Dr. Maksimovic-Ivanic was a principle investigator in one national and three bilateral projects financed by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Republic of Serbia, two projects financed by the Innovation Fund of the Republic of Serbia and two projects with industry. Currently she is the PI of the project: “Inflammation-driven cancer repopulation: seeds of progression and platform for therapy” financed by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia, program Prisma. Dr. Maksimovic-Ivanic supervised 2 Master and 3 PhD theses. Dr. Maksimovic-Ivanic is a leader of Cancer biology group. She is also a lecturer at the doctoral studies at the Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade and Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade. Her major research interests are immunooncology, experimental oncology, pharmacology and experimental therapeutics. Her current research is focused on evaluation of anticancer properties of metal complexes, naturally occurring compounds and nanotechnology on numerous experimental models in vitro and in vivo and definition of molecular mechanism of their action. She has more than 130 papers, h index is 31, Citation number (excluding self-citations) from SCOPUS citation database: 4029.