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Merica Glavina Durdov is Professor of Pathology currently working in University Hospital Split and School of Medicine Split. She graduated from University of Zagreb, School of Medicine in 1984. After passing medical residency and board exam in pathology, she started working at University Hospital Split. From 1990-1992 she was postgraduate student in field of Biomedicine at Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Zagreb and became master of science in 1995. In the year of 1998 she continued her education in the field of nephropathology in Institute for Pathology, Medical School University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. In the year 2000 she defended her doctoral thesis and started her research work in field of molecular pathology of Hodgkin's lymphoma at Cancer research UK Institute (CRUK) University of Birmingham, Great Britain at Department for molecular and cell biology, where she was main investigator of the ALIS project “EBV and Hodgkin lymphoma” from 2001-2004. From 2006-2011 Professor Glavina Durdov was main investigator of the project 'Cell interaction in Hodgkin lymphoma' supported by Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sports. The ongoing project with Professor as main investigator, is financed by previously mentioned Ministry: 'The influence of EBV on cell gene expression and Hodgkin’s disease outcome', investigating surrounding environment of Reed-Sternberg cells in correlation with EBV status.
Her educational work extends both to work with graduate students in Pathology course at University of Split, School of Medicine as well as University of Mostar School of Medicine. From 2006 until now Professor Glavina Durdov is head of the Postgraduate doctoral course Cancer Biology, University of Split, School of Medicine.
Professor Glavina Durdov was member of USCAP in 2010 and committee member of Ministry of Science, Education and Sport for chronic diseases. She is author of a number of scientific papers and abstracts, published in current contents indexed journals.