Prof. Igor Štagljar PhD, a distinguished scientist from the University of Toronto, visited the University of Split on Thursday, October 15. At the meeting in the Rectorate prof. Stagljar was welcomed by the Rector, prof. Dragan Ljutić PhD, the Vice-Rector for International Cooperation prof. Đurđica Miletić PhD, Head of Rector’s Office Ivana Pletković and Infrastructure Coordinator Marijan Bašić.

Prof. Igor Štagljar is one of Croatian most productive scientists abroad, and for the last three years, he has been collaborating with the Mediterranean Institute for Life Sciences. On this occasion, intensive forms of cooperation between prof. Stagljar and the University of Split were the topic of conversation.

Igor Štagljar, full professor in The University of Toronto, Canada, a world-renowned scientist in proteomics, the field in which his research team has one of the leading roles in the world today, is a corresponding member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He was born in 1966 in Zagreb. He graduated from the Faculty of Science there in 1990 with a degree in molecular biology. He continued his education in Switzerland, where he received his doctorate in molecular biology from the Swiss Federal Institute (ETH) in Zurich, 1994. He continued his study at the University of Zurich, in two postdoctoral studies where he researched transcription factors and aspects of DNA replication as well as chromosome repair in human cells. In Canada, he has been a full professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics at University of Toronto’s School of Medicine since 2005.