Contact: andrijana.mescic.macan@inantro.hr

Work experience:

  • 2024:  Research associate, Institute for Anthropological Research
  • 2022-2024: Senior chemist, Pliva d.o.o (Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd) /Research and development/Chemistry
  • 2014 –2022: Post.doc./ Research associate, Department for Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, University of Zagreb
  • 2009 – 2014: Ph.D. student/assistant, Department for Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, University of Zagreb

Education:

  • 2014: Doctor of Science in the field of chemistry, Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, University of Zagreb
  • 2004-2009: MSc in chemistry, Organic Processes and Products, Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, University of Zagreb
  • 2000-2004: High school Petar Preradović, Virovitica, Croatia

Scientific and professional development:

  • 01/11/2012 – 28/11/2012 -ETH Zürich, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Switzerland
  • 23/11/2011 – 30/11/2011-Section Des Sciences Pharmaceutiques, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Genève, Switzerland

Popularisation of science:

  • Work on the popularization of science for the general audience
  • Leader and inventor of workshops for children and students: Rainbow on the chemical table, Fun and exciting experiments in chemistry, In the lab of ice and fire
  • Participation in Festival of Science 2010-2015, Zagreb, Croatia
  • Participation in Night of Explorers 2012, Slavonski Brod, Croatia

Participation in projects:

associate on projects, project coordinator  Silvana Raić-Malić, Ph.D.

  • 2018 – 2022: Novi spojevi temeljeni na bioizosterima purina za ispitivanje njihovih antitumorskih i antipatogenih djelovanja (HRZZ-IP-2018-01-4682)
  • 2014 – 2017: Sinteza i citostatska ispitivanja biblioteke novih dušikovih heterocikla (HRZZ-IP-2013-11-5596)
  • 2009 – 2014: Razvoj i primjena novih molekula u pozitronskoj emisijskoj tomografiji (PET) (125-0982464-2925), Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sports
  • 2009 – 2012: Development of novel C-5 fluoroalkyl N-acyclic pyrimidine nucleoside analogs as PET tracers for in situ monitoring of gene and cell-based therapies using HSV1-TK as a reporter gene (SCOPES)

Teaching activity:  Supervision of undergraduate and graduate students as well as students in

Laboratory practicum in courses: Organic Chemistry, Chemistry of Natural Compounds, Chemistry of Natural and Synthetic Compounds, Introduction to Environmental Chemistry, Antiviral Agents and cytostatics, Chemistry of Heterocycles, Environmental Chemistry, Microwave Reactor and HPLC-MS

Research interests: antitumor, antibacterial and antiviral molecules, process chemistry, spectroscopic characterization of molecules, metabolomics, gas chromatography, mass spectrometry

List of publications: https://www.croris.hr/osobe/profil/29475

15 scientific papers published in the Current Contents database