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Name: Professor Melita Šalković-Petrišić, MD, PhD
Course coordinator: Molecular endocrinopharmacology

E-mail address: melitas@mef.hr 
Personal web page:  
Phone: 4590 219
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Department: Zavod za farmakologiju 
Institution: Medicinski fakultet 
Address: Šalata 11 
HR-10000 Zagreb 
Main Institution: Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Medicinski fakultet  

CV: 1982 - M.D. (Medical School University of Zagreb, Croatia). 1984-1985 – Postgraduate study of Preclinical and experimental pharmacology (Medical School University of Zagreb). 1986 - M.S. (Medical School University of Zagreb) Theme: "The effect of diabetes mellitus on human brain neurotransmitters". 1992 - Ph.D. (Medical School University of Zagreb) Theme: "Diabetes mellitus and brain dopamine". 1994-1995 - Postdoctoral Fellowship (Department of Neurobiology, The Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK). 1997 - Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, 2003 – Associate Professor of Pharmacology. 2008 – Professor of Pharmacology. Grants: Wellcome Trust Traveling Research Fellowship, UK; Wellcome Trust Travel Grant, UK. DAAD Research Fellowship (2003). Teaching activity: undergraduate study - Medical School University of Zagreb (subject: Pharmacology, Rational Pharmacotherapy), postgraduate - Medical School University of Zagreb (Clinical Pharmacology / Basic Pharmacodinamics, Medical Sciences / Molecular Pharmacology), The Faculty of Natural Science and Mathematics University of Zagreb (Biomedicine / Pharmacology of the Central Nervous System). Other professional activities: 1999- 2008 web site editor (1999 - 2001 the Executive Board Member) of the Croatian Pharmacological Society, 2000 – Member of the Committee for Master Thesis (Medical School University of Zagreb). Membership: IUPHAR / EPHAR (International and European Pharmacological Association), Croatian Pharmacological Society, Croatian Society for Neuroscience. Research activity: (A) research assistant - 2 international (USA- Cro, 1983-1985) and 3 national (1983-2002) projects, (B) project leader - "Brain Monoamine Transporter Genes and Insulin mRNA Expression in Diabetes Mellitus", Wellcome Trust, UK (1994-1995); "Central nervous system and diabetes mellitus", Ministry of science and technology RH (2002-2006 ); „Brain, experimental and cerebral diabetes, and cognitive and related disorders“ Ministry of science, education and sport“ (2007- ); "Molecular targets of betacytotoxic drugs within the brain", Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst /DAAD/, Germany (2003), collaborative project Germany-Croatia-Bosnia & Herzegovina "Experimental models of Alzheimer’s disease and cerebral diabetes related disorders", DAAD (2004 -). Research interest: neuroscience and Alzheimer disease.

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Last updated 20. October 2006.