Dr. Sanja Aveic

Curriculum Vitae

Scopus ID: 20435413800
Dr. Aveic graduated from the University of Belgrade, Serbia, from the Department of Molecular Biology and Physiology, Division of Experimental Biomedicine. She received her PhD in 2010 from the University of Padua and worked as a Post Doc for 4 years at the Department of Pediatric Oncohematology in Padua. Her main fields of interest are pediatric neoplasms, including leukemias and neuroblastomas. Since 2014, she has been studying the molecular aspects of neuroblastoma genesis to seek more effective personalized therapeutic regimens. In 2018, Dr. Aveic become group leader of the Laboratory of Target Discovery and Biology of Neuroblastoma at the Pediatric Research Institute Città della Speranza Foundation. Since February 2019, she is also a cell lab leader at the RWTH Aachen University Hospital in the Department of Dental Materials and Biomaterials. Dr. Aveic has been a reviewer for numerous scientific journals in the field of pediatric oncology and biomaterials. She is a member of the International Society of Pediatric Oncology Europe Neuroblastoma (SIOPEN) and the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB). As part of the Italian Neuroblastoma Working Group, composed of physicians, pathologists, bioinformaticians, and biologists, Dr. Aveic participates in the preclinical evaluation of new protocols for neuroblastoma-targeted therapies. Her scientific output has more than 50 original articles published in peer-reviewed high impact journals, being the first, last and/or corresponding author in more than half of them.