Dr Ilijana Grigorov

Dr Ilijana Grigorov

Work Package 5 Coordinator

Biography

Dr Ilijana Grigorov is a principal research fellow at the Institute for Biological Research “Siniša Stanković” – National Institute of Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade. Her expertise lies in signal transduction pathways involved in acute and chronic inflammation and the role of acute-phase proteins. Last fourteen years she has focused on searching for potential targets for prediction and interventions in diabetes, ischemia-reperfusion injury, sepsis, thioacetamide- induced liver toxicity, and gut microbiome changes. She has extensive expertise in the signaling role of extra/intracellular HMGB1 in inflammation, cell death (necrosis, apoptosis), autophagy process, and anti-HMGB1 treatments.  The main focus of her current research is on the disturbances in iron metabolism and the role of HMGB1 in signal transduction pathways involved in ferroptosis.  Her expertise in a variety of molecular biology and biochemistry techniques as well as experience in clinical trials, make her a competent member of the proposed project. Dr Ilijana Grigorov was the leader of the subgroup within a national project (2011- 2019), an investigator in the Serbian Science and Diaspora Collaboration program (2020-2023), five national research projects (1991-2011), and has published 54 papers in international peer- reviewed journals in the research area, which were cited 644 times (h-index = 14, Scopus). She is engaged as a lecturer at the PhD program of the State University of Novi Pazar and until 2020 the University of Belgrade. She has supervised 10 PhD theses (including one ongoing) and 6 master/diploma theses.