Mirjana Đukić, PhD

Mirjana Djukic has been employed at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Belgrade (FF-UBG), since December 1, 1988. She acquired the PhD in pharmacy-toxicology on January 29, 2002, and the titles of full professor in 2012, and Pharmacy specialist for biological drugs in 2017. At the Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health EOH, University of Pittsburgh, USA, with prominent PhD scientist Valerian E. Kagan, she was twice, as a postdoctoral fallow (2002-3) and a research associate (2010-11). She worked as a professor of toxicology at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Tuzla (2007-17) and the Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pharmacy for toxicology, University of Nis (MF-UN) (2017-19).

Research interests include free radicals, antioxidants, drug abuse/alcoholism and therapy, and analytical toxicology. She has 208 scientific publications, including two monogrphas on oxidative stress, ISBN:978-86-7804-155-6 and ISBN:978-86-7804-156-3; 64 original articles; 146 conference papers; 12 times as an invited lecturer at international/domestic conferences. She has been a member of 8 foreign projects (granted by: NIH, USA) and seven domestic ones, of which three currently occur::41018III (granted by MPNTR) and two ones granted by IMI-MMA.

Apart from being engaged in teaching activities at integrated and doctoral pharmacy studies, she introduced two elective courses (2008): "Free Radicals and Antioxidants-Laboratory Diagnostics" and "Drug Abuse". She was a mentor/member of numerous committees of final thesis on various study programs levels and a mentor of 3 defended and one undefended doctoral dissertation. In addition, she organized two continuing education courses on oxidative stress (2005). He is the co-author of 4 student laboratory handbooks (ISBN:86-80263-37-0 and ISBN:86-80263-38-9 in 2005, ISBN:978-86-80263-65-6 in 2009, and ISBN:978-86-6265-083-2 in 2021. In addition, she reviewed two student textbooks, ISBN:978-9958-894-67-1 (2017) and ISBN:978 -86-17-19066-6 (2015). Finally, she was a National Medical Encyclopedia Editorial board member, ISBN: 86-447-489-03 (2006).

She was the first Editor and founder of the FF-UBG website (2008-11), a member of the FF-UBG Council (2007-10), and founder of the Center for the Prevention of Addictive Behavior at FF-UBG since 2020. In addition, she has been a member of EUROTOX since 1999. She is a member of the "Commission for the Control of Procedures for the Destruction of the Precursors of the Government RS "(2020).

• Jovanović V, Marjanović S, Perić A, Jovanović D, Radojičić Z, Đukić M, Vojvodić D. Cytokine Changes in the Nasal Fluid after Acute Acoustic Trauma. Journal of Medical Biochemistry. 2025 Jan 8. DOI:https://doi.org/10.5937/jomb0-54742 (IF:2.157)
  Kostic E, Djukic M, Antovic A, Zdravkovic M, Milic M, Stojanovic I, Todorovic S, Vujovic M. Categorization of Marijuana Suspected Policies’ Seizures in Southeast Serbia according to Cannabinoids Content. Separations. 2023 May 12;10(5):307. (IF: 3.344)
• Pesic, D., Djukic, M., Stanojevic, I., Živkovic, V., Bolevich, S., Bolevich, S. and Jakovljevic, V. Cardiorespiratory fitness mediates cortisol and lactate responses to winter and summer marches.J Med Biochem 42: 1–14, 2023. (IF:2.157) (posted: 07-07-23)
• Kanjevac, Tatjana, Ervin Taso, Vladimir Stefanovic, Aleksandra Petkovic-Curcin, Gordana Supic, Dejan Markovic, Mirjana Djukic, Danilo Vojvodic, Anton Sculean, and Mia Rakic. "Estimating the effects of dental caries and its restorative treatment on periodontal inflammatory and oxidative status: A short controlled longitudinal study." Frontiers in Immunology. 2021; 3587. (M21; IF 7.624).
• Stevanovic, Ivana, Milica Ninkovic, Bojana Mancic, Marija Milivojevic, Ivana Stojanovic, Tihomir Ilic, Maja Vujovic, and Mirjana Djukic. "Compensatory Neuroprotective Response of Thioredoxin Reductase against Oxidative-Nitrosative Stress Induced by Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis in Rats: Modulation by Theta Burst Stimulation. Molecules. 2020; 25 (17): 3922. (M22; IF: 4,412)
• Djukic, Mirjana, Mara Fesatidou, Iakovos Xenikakis, Athina Geronikaki, Violina T. Angelova, Vladimir Savic, Marta Pasic et al. "In vitro antioxidant activity of thiazolidinone derivatives of 1, 3-thiazole and 1, 3, 4-thiadiazole." Chemico-biological interactions. 2018; 286: 119-131. (M21; IF 4.593)
• Djuric A, Begic A, Gobeljic B, Pantelic A, Zebic G, Stevanovic I, Djurdjevic D, Ninkovic M, Prokic V, Stanojevic I, Vojvodic D, Djukic M. "Subacute alcohol and/or disulfiram intake affects bioelements and redox status in rat testes."Food and Chemical Toxicology. 2017; 105: 44-51. (M21; IF 3.778)
• Angelova, V. T., Valcheva, V., Vassilev, N. G., Buyukliev, R., Momekov, G., Dimitrov, I., Saso L., Djukic M., Shivachev, B. Antimycobacterial activity of novel hydrazide-hydrazone derivatives with 2H-chromene and coumarin scaffold. Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters. 2017; 27 (2): 223-227. (M22; IF: 2.930)
• Stanojevic I, Miller K, Kandolf-Sekulovic L, Mijuskovic Z, Zolotarevski L, Jovic M, Gacevic M, Djukic M, Arsenijevic N, Vojvodic D. A subpopulation that may correspond to granulocytic myeloid-derived suppressor cells reflects the clinical stage and progression of cutaneous melanoma. International immunology. 2015; 28 (2): 87-97. (M22; IF 3.748)
• Naveena Yanamala, Alexander A Kapralov, Mirjana Djukic, Jim Peterson, Gaowei Mao, Judith Klein-Seetharaman, Detcho A Stoyanovsky, Jan Stursa, Jiri Neuzil, Valerian E Kagan. Structural re-arrangement and peroxidase activation of cytochrome c by anionic analogues of vitamin E: tocopherol-succinate and tocopherol-phosphate. J. Biol. Chem. 2014; 289 (47): 32488-98. (M21; IF 4.573)