Dr. Sanja Mijatović

Sanja Mijatovic graduated in Molecular Biology and Physiology at the Faculty of Biology at the University of Belgrade in 1994. She completed her Master's degree in Immunology at the Faculty of Biology in 1999 and her PhD in Immunology at the same faculty in 2005. She is currently employed as a principal research fellow at the Department of Immunology. She participated in four national and four bilateral projects funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia, two projects funded by the Fund for Innovation Activities of the Republic of Serbia and two projects on cooperation with industry. Dr. Sanja Mijatović was the leader of one innovative and three bilateral projects financed by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia. She is currently involved in the project: "Cancer repopulation caused by inflammation: seeds of progression and a platform for therapy", funded by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia within the Prizma programme. Dr. Sanja Mijatović was the mentor of two master's theses and two doctoral theses. Sanja Mijatović is part of the team of the group dealing with tumour biology and is a lecturer in the doctoral programme at the Faculty of Biology of the University of Belgrade and the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Belgrade. The focus of her research is the fundamental aspects of the tumor microenvironment, the complex interactions of cellular and non-cellular components that lead to the cross-talk between inflammation and regeneration, and, thereby, the development of new therapeutic platforms based on the acquired knowledge. The development of innovative approaches is currently based on the study of the antitumor properties of potential chemotherapeutic agents of synthetic or natural origin, as well as drugs of different original purpose in free form or in the context of nanotechnology application. The research is carried out on experimental models in vitro and in vivo, supported by a methodology that should make it possible to define the molecular processes underlying the observed phenomena. Dr. Sanja Mijatović is author or co-author of more than 120 original papers. At the moment, her h-index is 29 and the total number of citations (without self-citations) is 3800.