
Dubravka Rašić
PhD; professor of biology and chemistry / Senior Scientific Associate
Place and date of birth
Koprivnica, November 10, 1980
Education
- 2013 University of Zagreb, Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, Doctoral thesis: “The significance of oxidative stress in the mechanism of toxicity of ochratoxin A and citrinin”, mentor Maja Peraica, PhD, MD, scientific advisor
- 2005 University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, thesis work:” Development of periphyton communities in Plitvice lakes rheotops” mentor Prof. Biserka Primc Habdija, Full Professor
Work Experience
- 2021 – senior research associate at the Toxicology Unit (since 2023 Division of Toxicology), Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health
- 2016 – research associate at the Toxicology Unit, Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health
- 2013–2016 senior research assistant at the Toxicology Unit, Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health
- 2007–2013 scientific novice at the Toxicology Unit, Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health (Project: “Toxic effects of mycotoxins on humans and animals”)
Fields of interest
- Toxicology of mycotoxins
Additional training
- International Comet Assay Workshop, 2024, Rovinj, Croatia
- Kako prijaviti pokus na životinjama, 2024, Zagreb, Croatia
- The 3Hs Initiative – Housing, Handling, and Habituation, 2024, Zagreb, Croatia
- Continuing Education Course, 2021, Rabac, Croatia
- Adverse outcome pathways (AOP): The How and Why of Development & Application, 2018, Zagreb, Croatia
- EUROTOX specialized toxicology course: regulatory toxicology, 2018, Otočec, Slovenia
- International Chromatohraphy School, 2018, Zagreb, Croatia
- International Chromatohraphy School, 2017, Zagreb, Croatia
- HPLC Fundamentals – Theory and Practice, 2017, Zagreb, Croatia
- TrainMiC meets CroMycoScreen, seminar i radionica o validaciji metoda, mjerenju mikotoksina i rezultatima CroMycoScreen projekta, 2016, Osijek, Croatia
- Principles of Toxicology Course, 2016, Zagreb, Croatia
- Enlargement and Integration Workshop. Analysis of food and feed contaminants – Legal and scientific framework, including method validation and measurement uncertainity. Joint Research Centre, 2014, Zagreb, Croatia
- Stress: Comprehensive and Authentic Summer School, 2014, Zagreb, Croatia
- Mechanisms and Consequences of Free Radical-Mediated Oxidative Protein Modifications, 2009, Antalya, Turkey
- Lipids as regulators of cell function, 2008, Spetses, Greece
Awards
- Annual Award 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.
Memberships
- Croatian Society of Toxicology, president
- Croatian Microbiological Society
- Croatian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Croatian Laboratory Animals Science Association
- Croatian Genetics Society