Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad

Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Environmental Protection

+381-21-485-2720 infohemija@dh.uns.ac.rs

Ivana Kuzminac, PhD

Teaching assistant with a PhD

Chair of Organic Chemistry

CONTACT

University of Novi Sad Faculty of Sciences

Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Environmental Protection

Office: 5/III

Adress: Trg Dositeja Obradovića 3

21000 Novi Sad, Serbia

Tel: + 381 21 485 2772

e-mail: ivana.kuzminac@dh.uns.ac.rs

SCOPUS Autor ID: 57190574768

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8045-3568

EDUCATION

2018. PhD in Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences University of Novi Sad, Serbia
2008. MSc in Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences University of Novi Sad, Serbia
2007. BSc in Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences University of Novi Sad, Serbia

SCIENTIFIC AND ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2025: Senior research associate, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad
2020-2025: Research associate, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad
2023: Teaching assistant with a PhD Faculty of Sciences University of Novi Sad, Serbia
2016-2020. Research Assistant, Faculty of Sciences University of Novi Sad, Serbia
2003-2016. Junior Researcher, Faculty of Sciences University of Novi Sad, Serbia.

TEXTBOOKS

Đaković-Sekulić, Đ. Vaštag, Lj. Vojinović Ješić, B. Matijević, B. Srećo Zelenović, M. Radanović, S. Apostolov, Nataša Simin, A. Nikolić, K. Pavlović, I. Kuzminac, „Zbirka zadataka za pripremanje prijemnog ispita iz hemije“, Faculty of Sciences, Novi Sad, 2019.

TEACHING

Organic Chemistry I
Organic Chemistry II.

RESEARCH FIELDS

Organic synthesis
Chemical transformations of steroid hormones
Medicinal chemistry.

SELECTED PROJECTS

Novel steroid derivatives for anticancer drug development, bilateral cooperation project between the Republic of Serbia and Republic of Austria, project number: 337-00-577/2021-09/27; project duration 2022-2024. Project leader: dr. Marina Savić
New steroid derivatives – potential chemotherapeutics, Provincial Secretariat for Higher Education and Scientific Research of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Serbia (2021-2024., 142-451-2667/2021-01), Project leader: dr. Marina Savić
Development of steroid derivatives of potential biomedical importance, Provincial Secretariat for Higher Education and Scientific Research of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Serbia (2021-2022., 142-451-2309/2021-01), Project leader: dr. Ivana Kuzminac
Organic chemistry in the profession and science, program activity Higher Education, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia (2021-2022),
Synthesis, characterization and biological investigation of steroid derivatives and their molecular aggregates, Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia (2011-2019).

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Kuzminac, I., Klisurić, O., Škorić, D., Jakimov, D., Sakač, M. (2017): Structural analysis and antitumor potential of novel 5,6-disubstituted-17a-homo-17-oxa-androstane derivatives, Structural Chemistry 28:567–576
Kuzminac, I., Jakimov, D., Bekić, S., Ćelić, A., Marinović, M., Savić, M., Raičević, V., Kojić, V., Sakač, M. (2021): Synthesis and anticancer potential of novel 5,6-oxygenated and/or halogenated steroidal D-homo lactones, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry 30:115935
Kuzminac, I., Ćelić, A., Bekić, S., Kojić, V., Savić, M., Ignjatović, N. (2022): Hormone receptor binding, selectivity and cytotoxicity of steroid D-homo lactone loaded chitosan nanoparticles for the treatment of breast and prostate cancer cells, Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces 216:112597
Kuzminac, I., Bekić, S., Ćelić, A., Jakimov, D., Sakač, M. (2022): Antitumor potential of novel 5α,6β-dibromo steroidal D-homo lactone, Steroids 188:109118
Kuzminac, I., Savić, M., Ajduković, J., Nikolić, A. (2023): Steroid and Triterpenoid Compounds with Antiparasitic Properties, Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry 23:791-815

additional information

Member of Mensa Serbia (2013-2015.), the Serbian Chemical Society (2014-) and The Isoprenoids Society (2018-)
Awards:
- Award for “The Best Young Scientist UNS PMF ” (2023)
- IUPAC Poster Prize at 55^th Meeting of the Serbian Chemical Society (2018)
- Phytochemical Society of Europe Prize for the Best Poster at 24^rd Conference on Isoprenoids (Poland, 2018)
- The Best Master Thesis Award of the Nenad M. Kostić Foundation (2013)
- Annual Award of the Serbian Chemical Society (2013)
- Valedictorian of Faculty of Sciences (2012)
- Best Graduating Student of the University of Novi Sad in the 2011/2012 School Year (2012)
- Award to Best Graduating Student of the University of Novi Sad of Government of Vojvodina in 2011/12. School Year
- Award for outstanding scientific work of student during 2010/11. school year of University of Novi Sad
- First Prize in Chemistry at Competition „Primatijada“ (2011)
- Exeptional Award of the University of Novi Sad for Academic Acheivement (2008/2009., 2009/2010., 2010/2011. and 2011/2012.)
TRAIN program at the University of Novi Sad (2015.): „Higher Education Didactics and Designing Higher Education Curricula“ and „Research Methodology, Scientific Writing and Result Presentation – Technical, Natural and Life Sciences“
FEBS workshop “Scientific writing” (ENABLE Symposium 2017.)
Research stay within the ERASMUS+ program at the University of Alcala, Spain (2019) and within the Coimbra Group scholarship at the University of Padova, Italy (2023)
Secretary of the Section for Medicinal Chemistry within HDV-Serbian Chemical Society (since 2022)