Ekatarina Mihajlović

Ekatarina Mihajlović graduated from the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Belgrade in 2017 and obtained a Master of Pharmacy degree. The experimental part of her master's thesis entitled "The mechanism of arterial graft relaxation induced by procyanidin B2" was carried out at the Department of Pharmacology. After completing an internship in a pharmacy and passing a professional exam, she worked in the pharmaceutical industry, as a Product Development Associate at the Research and Development Institute of Galenika A.D. and as an Expert Associate in the STADA Packaging Coordination Team of Hemofarm A.D. In 2020, she enrolled in doctoral studies at the Faculty of Biology at the University of Belgrade, in the module Cellular and Molecular Oncology. In April 2021, she obtained the title Junior Research Assistant and since July of the same year, she has been employed at the Institute for Biological Research "Siniša Stanković" - National Institute of the Republic of Serbia, at the Department of Immunology. In December 2023, she obtained the title Research Assistant. She is currently involved in two research projects: the ADVANCED project within the PRISMA program of the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) project. She is an active member of the Serbian Society of Cancer Researchers (SDIR), the European Association for Cancer Research (EARC), the Serbian Society for Molecular Biology (MolBioS), the Club of Young Immunologists of Serbia (KMIS), the Young European Federation of Immunological Societies (yEFIS), the Serbian Society for Immunology, Molecular Oncology and Regenerative Medicine (SDIOR), the Biochemical Society of Serbia (BDS) and the European Federation of Biochemical Societies (FEBS). Her research interests are experimental oncology, immuno-oncology, oncopharmacology, and experimental therapeutics.