Dr. Ljubica Harhaji Trajković

Ljubica Harhaji Trajkovic, a Principal Research Fellow, was born in Belgrade in 1976. She earned a B.Sc. in Molecular Biology and Physiology (2001), an M.Sc. (2004) and a Ph.D. (2006) at the Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade. Dr. Harhaji Trajkovic completed postdoctoral training at the Panum Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark in 2007. In 2011, she received the L'Oréal-UNESCO “For Women in Science Awardsˮ. Ljubica was the leader of the project “The role of autophagy in tumor cell death" (2011 to 2019), funded by MESTD. She is currently leading the project "Dual targeting of lysosomal stability and energy metabolism as a novel antimelanoma strategy", for which she received a donation from the non-profit international organization “Climbers Against Cancer”. Her research interests include cancer biology, neurophysiology, cancer cell metabolism, autophagy, and lysosomal cell death. Ljubica is co-author of 67 scientific articles published in international journals, which have been cited more than 9000 times.