Irena Žuntar
Professor
University of Zagreb
Croatia
Biography
Dr. sc. Irena Žuntar is working as Full Professor and Specialist of Toxicology at University of Zagreb, Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, Croatia. She is course and unit leader of Toxicology. Subject Toxicology is obligatory course in both study programs, study of Pharmacy and study of Medical Biochemistry. Also, she considerably designed postgraduate specialist university program of Toxicology for health professionals and others interested or working in the field. She participated as expert in scientific and professional opinions for Ministry of Health and Croatian Food Agency, and now she is in mandate of the evaluation panel member of Croatian science foundation for scientific field of Biomedicine and health, public health and health protection, pharmacy. She was principal investigator of a scientific grant and researcher on many scientific projects and she gained two scientific awards. She was supervisor of more than 50 student’s diploma thesis, 4 Rector’s awards and two Dean’s awards.
Research Interest
Toxicology, Biochemistry, Pharmacy, Biomedicine & Health, Genetics and Molecular Biology