When we think of arthropods carrying infectious diseases, mosquitoes and ticks often come to mind. However, there’s a third vector that’s relatively unfamiliar but equally relevant: sand flies. Sand flies are tiny, hairy-winged insects that belong to the Phlebotominae subfamily. They can be found in warm and tropical climates worldwide. However, the impact of climate […]

On the January 24th Dr. Leonid Livshits gave the lecture on the topic „Glucose uptake and metabolism by human red blood cells: From basics to the concept of multi-level biomarker for detecting early pathological events “, and presented results of his research of erythrocytes and hemoglobin, conducted in Red Blood Cell Research Group, Institute of Veterinary […]

Colleagues from the Group for cardiovascular physiology attended the Scientific meeting dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the birth of prof. Dr Miloslav Kostić, doyen of physiology in our country, organized by the Society of physiologists of Serbia on December 20, 2023. at the Faculty of medical sciences, University of Kragujevac. On that occasion, Dr […]

The Rector of the University of Belgrade, Prof Vladan Djokic visited the Institute for Medical Research on December 27, 2023. During his visit, he had a productive meeting with the Institute Director, Dr Sasa Radovanovic, and the Institute’s researchers. On this occasion, he also visited several of the Institute’s research laboratories. The Institute for Medical […]

Professor Dr Vladana Vukojević from the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the Karolinska Institute Medical University (KI) in Stockholm, Sweden, visited the Institute for Medical Research at the University of Belgrade (IMR). In addition to the lecture held on the topic “Fluorescent Correlation Spectroscopy – Theoretical Foundations and Application in Biomedical Research” at the IMR […]

Researchers of the Institute for Medical Research participated in the Second Congress of Molecular Biologists of Serbia – CoMBoS 2, which was held in Belgrade from October 6 to 8, 2023. Vladan Čokić, Ph.D., and Biljana Ristić, Ph.D., held lectures by invitation, which attracted a lot of attention from the scientific public. Participation enabled the […]

Colleagues from the Group for cardiovascular physiology, Dr. Nevena Mihailovic-Stanojevic, Dr. Danijela Karanovic, and Dr. Una-Jovana Vajic participated in the “9th European Section Meeting of the International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences”, which took place from 4 to 7 October 2023 in Timisoara, Romania. Dr. Mihailovic-Stanojevic held an oral presentation on “Caffeic acid improves antioxidant defense […]

The celebration of the 170th anniversary of the Faculty of Biology of the University of Belgrade was held at the National Theater and the Botanical Garden in Belgrade on September 28, 2023.

As part of the CLIMOS project, a series of podcasts called “CLIMOS Talks” was launched. In the third episode of these “conversations”, our Suzana Blesić talked about how the project was created and what the early warning system for sand fly borne diseases (in English, sand fly borne diseases) will look like, which will be […]