Dr. Barbara Pem
Ruđer Bošković Institute
Bijenička 54
HR-10000 Zagreb
Education
2017 - 2021 Doctorate in Pharmaceutical and Biochemical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, University of Zagreb
2012 - 2017 Master's degree in Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, University of Zagreb
Awards and Achievements
British Scholarship Trust (BST) scholarship for a 3-month research visit to the Institute of Occupational Medicine, Edinburgh, UK, 2019 (project: "Interaction of metallic nanoparticles with biothiols – experimental vs. molecular dynamics approach”)
Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) scholarship for a 2-month research visit to the Institute of Chemistry, University of Graz, Austria, 2018 (project: “Interaction of proteins with metallic nanoparticles – the role of thiol residues”)
Featured Publications
Maleš P, Pem B, Petrov D, Domazet Jurašin D, Bakarić D. Deciphering the origin of the melting profile of unilamellar phosphatidylcholine liposomes by measuring the turbidity of its suspensions. Soft matter, 18 (2022), 6703-6715, doi:10.1039/D2SM00878E
Pem B, Toma M, Vrček V, Vinković Vrček I. Combined NMR and Computational Study of Cysteine Oxidation during Nucleation of Metallic Clusters in Biological Systems. Inorganic chemistry, 60 (2021), 4144-4161, doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c00321
Pem B, Pongrac IM, Ulm L, Pavičić I, Vrček V, Domazet Jurašin D, Ljubojević M, Krivohlavek A, Vinković Vrček I. Toxicity and safety study of silver and gold nanoparticles functionalized with cysteine and glutathione. Beilstein journal of nanotechnology, 10 (2019), 1802-1817, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.175
Membership in professional associations / societies
Croatian Chemical Society
Croatian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Croatian Chamber of Pharmacists