Suzana Žunec – Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health

Place and date of birth

Zagreb, August 26 1982

2006–2012. University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Doctoral thesis: “Efficiency of bispyridinium oximes against tabun and soman poisoning”, mentor Ana Lucić Vrdoljak
2000–2006. University of Zagreb, Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, Thesis work: “Use of enhanced flow-injection method for the determination of the total polyphenol content in foods” mentor Zorana Grabarić

since 2006. Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health, Zagreb, Croatia

Toxicology of organophosphorus compounds, antidotes; assessment of antioxidant status and biomarkers of oxidative stress on model systems in vitro and in vivo

Course for responsible persons for working with hazardous chemicals, Zagreb, Croatia (2023)
Educational workshop for mentors of interdisciplinary doctoral studies, Osijek, Croatia (2021)
Workshop “Excellent Lab Book for an Excellent Career”, online (2020)
Practical chromatography workshop HPLC-UV/VIS, Zagreb, Croatia (2020)
COMET workshop – Basic comet assay techniques, Sarajevo, BIH (2019)
How to successfully report animal testing, Zagreb, Hrvatska (2019)
Adverse outcome pathways (AOP): The how and why of development and application, Zagreb, Hrvatska (2018)
Laboratory animal science course, 80 hours, FELASA equivalent, Zagreb, Hrvatska (2018)
Animal Experiment Design, Zagreb, Croatia (2017)
Application of 3R approaches in laboratory animal work, Zagreb, Croatia (2015)
FRAME Reduction Steering Commitee Training School in the Experimental Design and Statistical Analysis of Biomedical Experiments, Nijmegen, Netherlands (2012)
Continuing Education Course (CEC) 4 – Safety Pharmacology for the Beginners, Paris, France (2011)
Basic Toxicology Course, Beograd, Serbia (2011)
Thirteen IUTOX Summer School on Risk Assessment of Chemicals, Bodensee, Germany (2008)
Workshop and Laboratory Exercise on the Analysis of Chemicals Related to the CWC, Helsinki, Finland Education (2007)
Methodological courses in biology and medicine “DNA and RNA”, Zagreb, Croatia (2007)

Annual Awards of the Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health for an article published in Archives of Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology cited at least 10 times in papers indexed by Web of Science or SCOPUS.

2026. Member of the working group “Collaborative Platform on Alternatives to Animal Testing at ECHA”
2023. Member of the editorial board of the journal “Frontiers in Pharmacology”
2020. Member of the Court of Honor of the Croatian Society of Toxicology
Croatian Toxicological Society
Croatian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Croatian Laboratory Animal Science Association