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Jovan Hadzi-Djokic, Full Professor of Urology, Serbian Academy of Science and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia.



Academician Prof. Jovan Hadzi-Djokic, MD, PhD is a Full Professor of Urology spent almost his entire clinical and academic practice at University Clinical Center Medical Faculty Belgrade (Serbia), being the Director of the Institute of Urology and Nephrology of the Clinical Center of Serbia, a consultant for urology at the Institute of Oncology and Radiology of Serbia, at the Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics of the Clinical Center of Serbia. He is a Member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts since 2003. He trained at the Foch Hospital (Centre Medico Chirurgicale) in Paris (France) and at the University Urology Clinic in Florence (Italy). During his surgical carrier, he introduced new operative techniques into routine urological practice, which made highly respectable within the framework of European and world urology as a scientific discipline. Recognized as a renowned professor, urology expert and scientist, Academician Prof. Jovan Hadzi-Ðokic enjoys a reputation in many professional associations through the world, as a member of the editorial boards of numerous journals. He published more than 500 professional-scientific papers, 11 monographs and textbooks in the field of urology: Tumors of the urinary bladder (1995), Angiographic atlas of urological diseases (1995), Urinary stoma (1996), Urgent urology (1997), Urological gynecology (2000), Minimal Invasion Treatment of Urinary Obstruction (2000), Localized prostate cancer ( 2005), Urinary diversions (2009), Urinary incontinence (2009), Erectile dysfunction (2012), Prostate (2014) and Hormones and Prostata (2022). He wrote more than 60 chapters in textbooks and monographsedited by other authors. His scientific opus is characterized by a large number of publications and papers in top international journals related to urology. He is a full member of the Serbian Medical Association, the Serbian Urological Association, the European Association of Urology and the Societe General d'Urologie. He is an honorary member of the Association of Urologists of Romania. He gave more than 80 invited lectures in Serbia and abroad. For his professional engagement, professional leadership and scientific contributions, he received several awards from various health institutions, organizations and Serbian Government, as well as the October Award of the City of Belgrade for the book Urinary Bladder Tumors. He has been a winner of medal "Karadjordje star of third degree", which has been awarded by the President of Republic of Serbia for special merits and successes in representing the state and its citizens. As especially admirable person, he was awarded by honorary citizenship from two cities Republic of Serbia.



Tatjana Simic, Full Professor of Biochemistry, Institute of Medical and Clinical Biochemistry Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Serbian Academy of Science and Arts, Serbia.



Professor Tatjana Simic, MD, PhD is a Full Professor of Medical and Clinical Biochemistry at the Institute of Medical and Clinical Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Serbia and a Corresponding member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. She obtained her PhD in Biochemistry at Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade in 1998. She is a Specialist in Clinical Biochemistry and Specialist in Laboratory Medicine. She is a Coordinator of PhD module "Tumor biology and redox medicine" (2016- present), Manager of the Center of excellence for Redox Medicine (2022-present), President of Serbian Proteomic Association (2023- present) and President of the Board for Accreditation of Research institutions of Republic of Serbia (2021-present). She coordinated multiple research projects and participated in numerous collaborative projects. From the very beginning of her scientific career, she has been involved in the research of the role that free radicals and altered mechanisms of antioxidant defense play in disturbed redox homeostasis in various malignant and non-malignant diseases. Regarding her research in the field of urological oncology, her group demonstrated the significance of polymorphisms in genes encoding antioxidant enzymes in susceptibility to urinary tract tumors and their chemoresistance. She supervised ten PhD candidates. She is an author and coauthor in more than 120 scientific articles referred on SCOPUS, and her h-index is 30. According toSCOPUS her papers were cited more than 3400 times (more than 2900 without auto citations).