The Ivan Đaja Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of Physiology, carried out at institutes and universities in Serbia, and defended during 2019/2020 was presented to Dr. Marija Jakovljević, from the Department of Neurobiology at IBISS, for his thesis entitled "The role of purinergic signaling in neuroinflammation and demyelination – implications for multiple sclerosis". The PhD thesis was performed at the Institute for Biological Research "Siniša Stanković" - National Institute of Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade, under the supervision of Dr. Irena Lavrnja and Dr. Danijela Laketa.

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