The collaborative UTRL project entitled "Probiotic bacteria for the treatment of liver steatosis" aims to develop, validate and commercialise a probiotic product for the purification of fatty liver. The project will be implemented over the next 12 months through a synergistic collaboration between science and industry and involves the Institute for Biological Research "Siniša Stanković" (IBISS), the Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering (IMGGI) and the pharmaceutical company Phytonet.

The project leader is Dr. Ana Đorđević, and the IBISS participants are Dr. Danijela Vojnović Milutinović and Dr. Ana Teofilović from the Department of Biochemistry.