Lidija Varga-Defterdarovic, Ph. D.

Senior Research Associate

phone: + 385 1 45 61 157

fax: + 385 1 46 80 195

lidija@irb.hr

  Education

• B. Sc. - University of Zagreb, Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology (1982)
• M. Sc. - University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science (1987)  
• Ph. D. - University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science (1990)

  Employment

• 01.04. - 31.08.1983 - University of Zagreb, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry
• 1983 - "Rudjer Boskovic" Institute, Division of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry
  Laboratory for the Carbohydrate, Peptide and Glycopeptide Research
• 1998 - 2006 - Research Associate
• 2006 - Senior Research Associate

  Membership

Croatian Chemical Society
Croatian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 
European Peptide Society  < br>Croatian Society of Chemical Engineers and Technologists

  Research field

Carbohydrates, amino acids and peptide chemistry, synthesis of biologicaly active peptides and glycopeptides. Maillard reaction. The physiological alpha-oxoaldehyde methylglyoxal and diabetes mellitus.