Nikola Balić

Assistant

E-mail

nbalic@irb.hr

Internal phone number

1610

Department

Division of Molecular Medicine

Laboratory

Laboratory of Molecular Neuropsychiatry

Address

Ruđer Bošković Institute
Bijenička 54
HR-10000 Zagreb

Education

MSc in Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, Zagreb, Croatia

Research Areas

Prirodne znanosti Biologija Biokemija i molekularna biologija Biomedicina i zdravstvo Farmacija Farmacija Medicinska biokemija Temeljne medicinske znanosti Neuroznanost Farmakologija Interdisciplinarna područja znanosti Biotehnologija u biomedicini (prirodno područje, biomedicina i zdravstvo, biotehničko područje)

Projects

Circulating Extracellular Vesicles as Predictors of Antidepressant Response: Monitoring the Mechanism of Novel Therapeutic Approaches in Depression (PI: Dr. Matea Nikolac Perkovic) - CONTRIBUTOR

Awards and Achievements

AWARD for the BEST POSTER PRESENTATION in the Section "Clinical Pharmacology" at 11th CROATIAN CONGRESS OF PHARMACOLOGY WITH INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPATION, Split, Croatia. (September 2025).

AWARD for the BEST ORAL PRESENTATION at 5th Days of PhD students of the doctoral study "Medicinal Chemistry", Faculty of Biotechnology and Drug Development, Rijeka, Croatia. (September 2025).

Travel Grant Recipient – FENS Regional Meeting 2025; Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS), Oslo, Norway. Awarded competitive travel grant to attend and present a poster at the FENS FRM 2025. (June 2025).

Best Poster Presentation Award - 8th Faculty of Science PhD Student Symposium, University of Zagreb, Croatia (April 2024)

Publications - journal articles

Pregledni rad (znanstveni)

Balic, Nikola; Nikolac Perkovic, Matea; Milos, Tina; Vuic, Barbara; Kurtovic Kodzoman, Matea; Svob Strac, Dubravka; Nedic Erjavec, Gordana | Extracellular vesicles as a promising tool in neuropsychiatric pharmacotherapy application and monitoring // Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry, 139 (2025), 111393, 12. doi: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2025.111393

doiwww.sciencedirect.com
Milos, Tina; Vuic, Barbara; Balic, Nikola; Farkas, Vladimir; Nedic Erjavec, Gordana; Svob Strac, Dubravka; Nikolac Perkovic, Matea; Pivac, Nela | Cerebrospinal fluid in the differential diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease: an update of the literature // Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics, 24 (2024), 11; 1063-1079. doi: 10.1080/14737175.2024.2400683

doiwww.tandfonline.com

Publications - conference proceedings

Sažetak izlaganja sa skupa

Balic, Nikola; Milos, Tina; Kurtovic Kodzoman, Matea; Nikolac Perkovic, Matea; Nedic Erjavec, Gordana | Plasma metabolomic profiling in patients with major depressive disorder // FENS Regional Meeting 2025 Abstract book. | Oslo: -, 2025

www.frm2025oslo.no
Vuić, Barbara; Miloš, Tina; Balić, Nikola; Farkaš, Vladimir; Tudor, Lucija; Konjevod, Marcela; Nikolac Perković, Matea; Nedić Erjavec, Gordana; Švob Štrac, Dubravka | Potential therapeutic effects of brain-derived neurotrophic factor in cell cultures exposed to oxygen-glucose deprivation/reperfusion // 2nd Biomedicine and Health PhD Students Congress "Science and us" / Bračun, Ines; Krstanović, Fran; Medved, Magdalena et al. (ur.). | Rijeka: University of Rijeka, Faculty of Medicine, 2024. str. 23-23
Vuic, Barbara; Milos, Tina; Balic, Nikola; Farkas, Vladimir; Konjevod, Marcela; Tudor, L.ucija; Nikolac Perkovic, Matea; Nedic Erjavec, Gordana; Svob Strac, Dubravka | Potential protective role of DHEA(S) and BDNF in an in vitro model of vascular dementia // 8th Faculty of Science PhD Student Symposium: Book of Abstracts / Posarić, Laura; Gmižić, Daria; Ostojić, Tea et al. (ur.). | Zagreb: Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia, 2024. str. 82-82
Balić, Nikola; Konjevod, Marcela; Švob Štrac, Dubravka; Nedić Erjavec, Gordana | Association of peripheral DHEAS and BDNF with neurocognitive decline in humans // 8th Faculty of Science PhD Student Symposium: Book of Abstracts / Posarić, Laura; Gmižić, Daria; Ostojić, Tea et al. (ur.). | Zagreb: Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia, 2024. str. 67-67

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Publications - Conference unpublished

Neobjavljeni prilog sa skupa

Balic, Nikola; Tudor, Lucija; Milos, Tina; Kurtovic Kodzoman, Matea; Videtic Paska, Alja; Oblak, Ales; Saje, Marko; Bon, Jurij; Fabijanic, Tea; Sagud, Marina et al. | Metabolomic insights into treatment-resistant depression: effects of esketamine and transcranial magnetic stimulation // 20TH SCIENTIFIC CFGBC SYMPOSIUM “Shaping the Future of Functional Genomics for 20 Years” | Ljubljana, Slovenija, 11.06.2025-12.06.2025

Publications - Graded papers

Diplomski rad (sveučilišni)

Balić, Nikola | Polimorfizam gena SULT2A1 i koncentracija dehidroepiandrosteron sulfata (DHEAS) u plazmi osoba s neurokognitivnim poremećajem / Svob Strac, Dubravka; Hranilović, Dubravka (mentor). | Zagreb, Prirodoslovno-matematički fakultet, Zagreb, 2023

repozitorij.pmf.unizg.hr

Završni rad (sveučilišni)

Balic, Nikola; Vukovic, Rosemary; Vukovic Popovic, Ana | Oksidacijski i antioksidacijski status skeletnog mišića pretilih Sprague-Dawley štakora / Vukovic, Rosemary (mentor); Vukovic Popovic, Ana (neposredni voditelj) . | Osijek, Sveučilište Josipa Jurja Strossmayera u Osijeku, Odjel za biologiju, 2021

Membership in professional associations / societies

Croatian Pharmacological Society (CPS)

Croatian Society for Neuroscience (HDN)

Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS)

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