Assoc. prof.
University of Rijeka, Faculty of Biotechnology and Drug Development
Rijeka, Primorsko-Goranska, Croatia
Antonija Jurak Begonja, Ph.D., is an associate professor at University of Rijeka, Faculty of Biotechnology and Drug Development, Croatia. She received her PhD in 2007 from Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany, where she worked on signal transduction with a focus on reactive oxygen species and cyclic nucleotides in platelets. As a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, USA, in the group of Dr. John Hartwig, her research focused on the role of the cytoskeletal protein filamin A in megakaryopoiesis. In 2013, Dr. Jurak Begonja joined University of Rijeka as an assistant professor. Her research group investigates the involvement of phosphoinositides in the molecular mechanisms of megakaryocyte development and platelet function. As a principal investigator, Dr. Jurak Begonja received a Marie Curie FP7 COFUND fellowship, a Global Research Award from the American Society of Hematology and a grant from the Croatian Science Foundation.
Monday, June 24, 2024
14:45 – 15:00 ICT