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Division of Molecular Medicine

The mission of the Division of Molecular Medicine is to expand and enhance our knowledge of the nature of diseases and to develop and improve new strategies for the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease.

The mission of DMM is closely correlated with the major areas of human medicine, covering a broad spectrum reflected in the name of its laboratories.

The majority of research topics have been oriented to the molecular aspects of cancer, neuroscience (neuropsychiatry, neurodegeneration, neuropharmacology), stress-related diseases and their models. Particular attention and research has been devoted to  mechanisms of disease etiology through disturbed methylation of macromolecules (DNA/proteins), molecular mechanisms of disease etiopathogenesis and experimental therapy.

The DMM, with its Human Tumor Bank and numerous  clinical samples collected through collaborations with clinicians (e.g. in neuropsychyatry and neurodegeneration), represents an important biomedical core, dedicated to establishing and refining new strategies and methods for understanding the molecular mechanisms of disease, for improving diagnostic procedures and therapies and, of primary importance, for disease prevention.

Laboratories (14)

Laboratory for Bioanalytics

Head: dr.sc. Mario Cindrić

Laboratory of Experimental Therapy

Head: dr.sc. Marijeta Kralj

Laboratory for Epigenomics

Head: dr.sc. Koraljka Gall Trošelj

Laboratory for Neurodegenerative Disease Research

Head: dr.sc. Silva Katušić Hećimović

Laboratory for membrane transport and signaling

Head: dr.sc. Ana Čipak Gašparović

Laboratory for Metabolism and Aging

Head: dr.sc. Tihomir Balog

Laboratory of Molecular Neuropsychiatry

Head: dr.sc. Dubravka Švob Štrac

Laboratory for advanced genomics

Head: dr.sc. Oliver Vugrek

Laboratory for Hereditary Cancer

Head: dr.sc. Petar Ozretić

Laboratory for Oxidative Stress

Head: dr.sc. Neven Žarković

Laboratory for Personalized Medicine

Head: dr.sc. Sanja Kapitanović

Laboratory for protein dynamics

Head: dr.sc. Neda Slade

Facility for laboratory animals

Head: dr.sc. Ranko Stojković

Staff (94)

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