Graduated and obtained her MSc and PhD in Biology from University of Belgrade, Serbia. As MSc student she participated in the project of characterization of thiopurine s-methyltransferase gene polymorphisms in patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia and Crohn’s disease in laboratory for Molecular Haematology, IMGGI, Belgrade, Serbia. In 2003 she moved to Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid, Spain to work as a PhD student on a project investigating the role of B-Raf oncogene in mouse development and tumorigenesis. Since 2010 she works as a postdoctoral fellow in Growth control and cancer metastasis laboratory at IRB Barcelona. Her current research is focused on deciphering signaling pathways and molecular mechanisms involved in the process of colon cancer metastasis. For her research she was awarded fellowships from Spanish Ministry of Science and Asociación Española Contra el Cáncer as well as Olga Torres private foundation grant. Member of Spanish Multidisciplinary Group for Digestive tract Cancers since 2010. Member of the 1st and 2nd IRB Barcelona PostDoc Day Organizing Committee. Instructor in the Barcelona BioMed Workshop for high-school teachers “Cancer, Metastasis and Personalized Medicine”.
Selected publications from PubMed
Quantitative Global Proteomics of Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded Tumors Identifies Dimethylated G3BP1 at Arginine 460 as a Robust Pharmacodynamic Biomarker of Methylthioadenosine Phosphorylase-Selective Protein Arginine Methyltransferase 5 Inhibition.
Tu A, Wiseman EJ, Sweet SM, Urosevic J, Loizou J, Barnicle A, Richardson C, Abhishek S, Chain DC, Kim YJ, Chambers AG
J Proteome Res. 2026 Jul 3;25(7):3586-3594 doi: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.6c00112.
Use of Human Dose Prediction Metrics to Enable Discovery of AZD3470, an MTA-Cooperative PRMT5 Inhibitor in Clinical Evaluation.
Smith JM, Barlaam B, Beattie D, Bradshaw L, Chan HM, Cooke SL, Cronin A, Cumming I, Dean E, Debreczeni JÉ, Barco Barrantes ID, Ferguson D, Gianni D, Grondine M, Lynch JT, McWilliams L, Moore S, Raubo P, Qu Y, Robb GR, Tan L, Urosevic J, Vazquez-Chantada M, Wang P
J Med Chem. 2026 Jun 11;69(11):13725-13752 doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.6c00659.
Fundamental and unique roles of PLAC1 in the regulation of rat and human trophoblast cell development.
Moreno-Irusta A, Urosevic J, Iqbal K, Seetharam AS, Nteeba J, Scott RL, Kuna M, Muto M, Kozai K, Celic A, Okae H, Arima T, Johnson DK, Tuteja G, Soares MJ
Development. 2026 May 1;153(9) doi: 10.1242/dev.205290.
Strengthening the role of community pharmacy in HPV vaccination roll-out in Serbia at national and local levels: A pharmacy-based education approach.
Rapajić-Moran I, Filipić B, Rajković D, Rakić M, Stojiljković D, Letić B, Urošević J, Bogavac-Stanojević N
PLoS One. 2025;20(4):e0322584 doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0322584.
Aurora B inhibition induces hyper-polyploidy and loss of long-term proliferative potential in RB and p53 defective cells.
Vora S, Chatterjee S, Andrew A, Kumar RP, Proctor M, Zeng Z, Bhatt R, Nazareth D, Fernando M, Jones MJK, He Y, Hooper JD, McMillan NAJ, Urosevic J, Saeh J, Travers J, Cimini D, Chen J, Gabrielli B
Cell Death Dis. 2025 Jan 8;16(1):7 doi: 10.1038/s41419-024-07329-7.
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