Professor Mirjana Turkalj MD PhD graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, the University of Zagreb. She completed specialist training in paediatrics in 1998, and subspecialist trainings in paediatric allergy and clinical immunology, and pediatric pulmonology in 2005. She was elected to a position of Assistant professor in 2015, followed by a full Professorship in 2019. She served as a Deputy Director of the Srebrnjak Children’s Hospital in Zagreb (DBS, 2010-2019), the Head of the Reference Centre of Clinical Allergology of the Croatian Ministry of Health, and Head of the Department for Allergology, Immunology and Pulmonology at DBS.
Mirjana’s academic work is based at the Faculty of Medicine of Croatian Catholic University, Faculty of Medicine at the University of Zagreb, Medical Scoolof of the University of Osijek, Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry. Her interests include immunological mechanisms of asthma and allergic diseases, mechanisms of allergen-specific immunotherapy, food allergy and food immunotherapy, and the effect of environmental factors on development of allergic diseases. She has published more than 240 manuscripts and 30 book chapters. She is the PI of several research programmes funded through EU funds, with a large network of collaborators in several EU countries and the UK.
As part of the NHLI IRD Guest Seminar Series, Mirjana will be presenting in person on ‘Asthma and allergic diseases: What can Croatia contribute in light of the EU research priorities on the impact of environment on health?’
Please come and join in SAF 122 or via the Teams link provided.