Jelena Kotur-Stevuljević is currently Full Professor and Head of the Department of Medical Biochemistry, at the Faculty of Pharmacy – University of Belgrade. Her total 30 years of work experience, educational and scientific, is primarily related to oxidative stress and its link to cardiometabolic diseases, which is exemplified by lengthy publication record in relevant scientific journals (number of published papers total/last 5 years =201/85; h index=31; citation number without self-citations 3287). To date, she has mentored and co-mentored 5 PhD students and is currently a mentor of 5 PhD students. She has led 2 bilateral projects: with the Republic of Montenegro, University of Podgorica, Medical Faculty (2019-2021 “Micro RNA modulation by oxidative stress and inflammation in patients with type 2 diabetes”) and the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Pharmacy, Slovenia (2016-2017: „Telomere-telomerase system (TT) in complex diseases”). Jelena Kotur-Stevuljević is also the national coordinator for CEEPUS network (action: “Novel diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to complex genetic disorders”, CIII-SI-0611-08). She was an associate on the project of the Federal Ministry of Education and Science of Bosnia and Herzegovina “The importance of determining the parameters of oxidative stress, inflammation and hemostasis in the early diagnosis of obesity in the pediatric population” 2017-2020). She is a member of Ethical Committee for animal research of Faculty of Pharmacy (2022- current), was a member of Faculty of Pharmacy Council (2015–2022), Faculty of Pharmacy representative at the University of Belgrade’s Professional Board for Medical Sciences (2019–current). She is a member of the General Board of Serbian Society for Mitochondrial and Free Radical Physiology (2012–current). Jelena Kotur-Stevuljević set up a laboratory for the redox status markers analytics at the Department of Medical Biochemistry. She led 6 successful projects „Innovation vouchers“, granted by Innovation Fund of the Republic of Serbia (2018-2025) for inter-sector collaboration between academic institutions and private companies. Jelena Kotur-Stevuljević recently got a grant from the Innovation Fund Republic of Serbia (project from the Smart-Start programme entitled Redox Platform for Personalized Athlete Supplementation (RedoxFit)). According to Stanford University’s researchers citation metric calculation she was listed among the 2% of most cited world scientists for 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023. (https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/2https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/3).
