Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad

Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Environmental Protection

Sofija Bekić, PhD

Senior 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

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

2026-today. Senior Research Associate, University of Novi Sad Faculty of Sciences, Serbia
2021-2026. 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.

Development of the experiment-based deep learning model for the identification of novel ligands of steroid-metabolizing enzymes, Bilateral cooperation Serbia-Belarus (2025-2027).
New steroid derivatives – potential chemotherapeutics, Provincial Secretariat for Higher Education and Scientific Research (2021-2024)
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).

Development of the experiment-based deep learning model for the identification of novel ligands of steroid-metabolizing enzymes, Bilateral cooperation Serbia-Belarus (2025-2027).
New steroid derivatives – potential chemotherapeutics, Provincial Secretariat for Higher Education and Scientific Research (2021-2024)
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).

Award for best pitch presentation on Croatian Summer School on Medicinal Chemistry (2025)
Grant for participation in the 47^th FEBS congress, Tours, France (2023)
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, Serbian Association for Cancer Research, European Society of Endocrinology