Sofija Bekić, PhD
Research Associate
Chair of Biochemistry and Chemistry of Natural Products
CONTACT
University of Novi Sad Faculty of Sciences
Department of Biology and Ecology
Office: 23/III
Trg Dositeja Obradovića 2
21000 Novi Sad, Serbia
Tel: + 381 21 485 2715
e-mail: sofija.bekic@dh.uns.ac.rs
Personal webpage: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sofija_Bekic
SCOPUS Author ID: 57200033251
EDUCATION
- 2020. Doctor of Biochemical Sciences, University of Novi Sad Faculty of Sciences, Serbia
- 2014. MSc in Biochemistry, University of Novi Sad Faculty of Sciences, Serbia
- 2013. BSc in Biochemistry, University of Novi Sad Faculty of Sciences, Serbia
SCIENTIFIC AND ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- 2021-today. Research Associate, University of Novi Sad Faculty of Sciences, Serbia
- 2018-2021. Research Assistant, University of Novi Sad Faculty of Sciences, Serbia
- 2015-2018. Junior Researcher, University of Novi Sad Faculty of Sciences, Serbia.
TEACHING
- Biochemistry
- Biochemistry of hormones
- Biochemistry of steroids.
RESEARCH FIELDS
- Evaluation of biological activities of steroid derivatives
- Protein-ligand interactions
- Development of biological assays for identification of steroid receptor ligands
- Development of biological assays for testing activity of steroidogenic enzymes.
SELECTED PROJECTS
- 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
- 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)
- Development of structural methods to the study of pharmacologically active enzymes, Multilateral scientific and technological cooperation among countries in the Danube Region Serbia-Czech Republic-Slovakia (2017-2018)
- Target-specific screening of new activity modulators of human sterol-hydroxylases, Bilateral cooperation Serbia-Belarus (2018-2019).
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Savić, M. P., Ajduković, J. J., Plavša, J. J., Bekić, S. S., Ćelić, A. S., Klisurić, O. R, Jakimov, D. S., Petri, E. T., Djurendić. E. A. (2018): Evaluation of A-ring fused pyridine D-modified androstane derivatives for antiproliferative and aldo-keto reductase 1C3 inhibitory activity. MedChemCommun. 9: 969–981.
- Bekić, S. S., Marinović, M. A., Petri, E. T., Sakač, M. N., Nikolić, A. R., Kojić, V. V., Ćelić, A. S. (2018): Identification of D-seco modified steroid derivatives with affinity for estrogen receptor α and β isoforms using a non-transcriptional fluorescent cell assay in yeast. Steroids. 130: 22-30.
additional information
- Grant for participation in FEBS advanced course “Ligand-binding theory and practice”, Nove Hrady, Czech Republic (2018)
- Scholarship for participation in summer school “Advances in drug discovery”, Prague, Czech Republic (2017)
- Scholarship of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of Republic of Serbia for students of doctoral studies (2015-2018)
- Special award of the Serbian Chemical Society for academic achievement (2014)
- Scholarship of Fund for Young Talents “Dositeja”, Ministry of Youth and Sports of the Republic of Serbia (2012, 2014)
- University of Novi Sad, Serbia, award for academic achievement (2009-2012)
- Study visits involved in international scientific cooperation projects: Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of NAS of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus (2018); Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Prague, Czech Republic (2017), Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Ljubljana, Slovenia (2015)
- Member: The Serbian Biochemical Society, The Serbian Chemical Society, The Serbian Society for Molecular Biology.