School of Medicine University of Zagreb (UZSM)
University of Zagreb School of Medicine (UZSM) is internationally recognized academic institution devoted to excellence in education, scientific research and transfer of knowledge in the area of biomedicine and health care. UZSM participated in seven FP7 (one collaborative and two REGPOT as coordinator) ten HORIZON 2020 projects (one as coordinator) and currently participating in five Horizon Europe. With its laboratories, personnel and other facilities UZSM takes part and provides support to full range of research activities from basic science to clinical trials.
University of Zagreb, School of Medicine will take part in WP6 and WP7. It will provide health research management support, supervise Good Clinical and Good Distribution Practice implementation, supervise Ethical issues and approvals, provide facilities and man power for blood analyses, dissemination activates, administrative and management support to the project.
University clinical hospital Dubrava (UCHD)
University clinical hospital Dubrava (UCHD) is one of the leading hospitals of national significance and center of excellence for liver diseases affiliated to the University of Zagreb School of Medicine. It is tertiary level health-care facility capable of performing the most complex work-up of patients with liver disease, including the full spectrum of non-invasive and invasive diagnostic methods, as well as therapeutic procedures. As the academic center it is included in several international collaborative research projects and clinical trials, and continuously invests efforts into researches that are focused mainly on alcoholic and metabolic associated steatotic liver disease, cholangiopathies, liver cirrhosis and portal hypertension, including the performance of non-invasive diagnostic methods, and discovery of new biomarkers and therapeutic targets for portal hypertension.
University Clinical Hospital Dubrava will take part in clinical study of WP4, including the recruitment of patients, performing medical examinations, liver stiffness measurements and collecting blood samples as per the study protocol. It will take care about patients who test positive and who will be thereafter referred to hepatologist for further workup and treatment.
TEAM MEMBERS
Ivica Grgurević
Ivica Grgurevic is Full Professor of Medicine at the University of Zagreb, School of Medicine and Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, and Consultant gastroenterologist and hepatologist at Dubrava University Hospital in Zagreb. He is an expert in liver cirrhosis and portal hypertension, as well as in ultrasound and non-invasive diagnostic methods in hepatology. He will coordinate the activities of the Croatian site in Liveraim, and will take part in the WP4 and WP7.
Anita Madir
Anita Madir is a gastroenterology resident at University Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia and a PhD student in field of hepatology at the University of Zagreb, School of Medicine. She previously worked as a research assistant on the Horizon 2020 project, called the Liverscreen project / Screening for liver fibrosis, a population-based study in European countries and has experience in research activities on chronic liver diseases. She will participate in dissemination and communication activities of WP4 and WP7.
Ivana Šiprak
Ivana Šiprak graduated in Master program at University of Applied Sciences and achieved the title Professional specialist of Project Management and has a Bachelor’s degree in Business Economics and Finance. She is a certified Project Management Associate (level D) certified by International Project Management Association. Additionally, she is member of Croatian Association for Project Management. Ivana Šiprak is employed at the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb as Head of Department for science, knowledge transfer and innovation where she manages national and international projects from different funding programs. In LIVERAIM she has a role of project administrator for Croatian partner in WP6 and WP7.