Aleksandar Kibel
Aleksandar Kibel is an Associate Professor at the Department of Physiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine in Osijek and the Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Dental Medicine and Health, University of Osijek, as well as a specialist in internal medicine and a subspecialist in cardiology at the International Medical Center Priora. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Osijek with an MD degree in 2009, achieving the maximum possible grade average. He completed his internship at the University Hospital Centre in Zagreb. He obtained his PhD in 2014 and later acquired the scientific grade of Senior Expert Associate in both Basic Medical Sciences and Clinical Medical Sciences. He has been engaged in preclinical and clinical scientific research for many years and has also participated in clinical trials. He was awarded the TOP scholarship for top students, the Faculty Council Award for exceptional academic success during medical school, and the Lions Club Award for the best students of the University, along with other awards for his activities at the Science Festival and the Osijek Medical Students' Day. He is the author of numerous scientific papers indexed in relevant databases (see CROSBI), author of book chapters and editor of a book on the renin-angiotensin system. He served as a guest editor and reviewer for the journals Oxidative Medicine & Cellular Longevity and Journal of International Medical Research, among others, and also reviewed and was a member of the editorial board for other foreign journals, including Frontiers in Physiology. He is a mentor for several graduate theses and is also a mentor for four doctoral students in the postgraduate doctoral program in Biomedicine and Health. He was the head of the institutional scientific research project IP-8 of the Faculty of Medicine, Osijek, and a collaborator on other scientific projects (including a project of the Croatian Science Foundation). He is the head of the MEFOS-2 research group of the Scientific Center of Excellence (ZCI) for personalized health care (in the Scientific Unit for Research, Production and Medical Testing of Functional Foods) and is also a member of the scientific board of the ZCI. He is the subject lead of Physiology and Pathophysiology at the University's Integrated Undergraduate and Graduate Study of Medicine in German, located at the Faculty of Medicine in Osijek. He is the Head of the Scientific Unit for Medical Research at the International Medical Center Priora.