Dijana Topalović, PhD

Dijana Topalovic

Position: Assistant professor
Organizational unit: Department of Pathobiology
Room:
303
Phone:
+381 11 3951 246
Email: dijana.topalovic@pharmacy.bg.ac.rs

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Dijana Topalović was born on August 6, 1975. in Belgrade, where she finished elementary school and high school. She graduated from the University of Belgrade - Faculty of Biology, where she defended her doctoral dissertation in 2019.

From 2004 to 2006, she was engaged as a project associate at the Department of Ecology and Geography of Plants, University of Belgrade - Faculty of Biology. From 2006 to 2012, she was engaged as a teaching associate at the Department of Physiology and the Department of Botany, University of Belgrade - Faculty of Pharmacy, in the subjects of Biology with Human Genetics, Physiology and Botany. Since 2012, she has been employed at the Department of Pathobiology as an teaching assistant, and since 2020 as an teaching assistant with PhD in the scientific field of Biology with Human Genetics at the same Department. She participates in practical classes in Biology with Human Genetics and Fundamentals of Molecular Genetics at the Integrated Academic Studies.

She has been a member of the 13 graduate commissions. She participates in the realization of student research papers within the activities of the Center for Scientific Research of Students of the Faculty of Pharmacy in Belgrade, where she was a mentor of 5 student research papers. Since 2003, she has been engaged in 3 national, 1 bilateral and 1 international projects, 3 COST actions and 1 Innovation Voucher.

Up-to-date, Dijana Topalović was the author or co-author of more than 40 publications in peer-reviewed international and national journals, chapters in monographs of international and national importance and press releases from international and national conferences printed in excerpts. She is a reviewer in several international journals from the SCI list. According to the Scopus Database, number of citations is more than 140, and the h index is 8.


  • Čabarkapa-Pirković, A., Živković, L., Dekanski, D., Topalović, D., Spremo-Potparević, B. Olive leaf, DNA damage and chelation therapy, in (Eds): Preedy, V.R., Watson R.R., Olives and Olive Oil in Health and Disease Prevention (Second Edition), ISBN 9780128195284, Academic Press, 2021, Pages 457-469.
  • Mićović, T., Topalović, D., Živković, L., Spremo-Potparević, B., Jakovljević, V., Matić, S., Popović, S., Baskić, D., Stešević, D., Samardžić, S., Stojanović, D., Maksimović, Z. (2021): Antioxidant, Antigenotoxic and Cytotoxic Activity of Essential Oils and Methanol Extracts of Hyssopus officinalis L. Subsp. aristatus (Godr.) Nyman (Lamiaceae). Plants, 10(4), 711.
  • Topalović, D., Dekanski, D., Spremo-Potparević, B., Pirković, A., Borozan, S., Bajić, V., Stojanović, D., Giampieri, F., Gasparrini, M., Živković, L. (2019): Dry olive leaf extract attenuates DNA damage induced by estradiol and diethylstilbestrol in human peripheral blood cells in vitro. Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis, 845:402993.
  • Burja, B., Kuret, T., Janko, T., Topalovic, D., Živkovic, L., Mrak-Poljšak, K., Spremo-Potparevic, B., Žigon, P., Distler, O., Cucnik, S., Sodin-Semrl, S., Lakota, K., Frank-Bertoncelj, M. (2019): Olive Leaf Extract Attenuates Inflammatory Activation and DNA Damage in Human Arterial Endothelial Cells. Front Cardiovasc Med, 6:56.
  • Topalović, D., Dekanski, D., Spremo-Potparević, B., Djelić, N., Bajić, V., Zivković, L. (2018): Assessment of adrenaline-induced DNA damage in whole blood cells with the comet assay. Arh Hig Rada Toksikol, 69(4), 304-308.
  • Nikolic, I., Jasmin Lunter, D., Randjelovic, D., Zugic, A., Tadic, V., Markovic, B., Cekic, N., Zivkovic, L., Topalovic, D., Spremo-Potparevic, B., Daniels, R., Savic, S. (2018): Curcumin-loaded low-energy nanoemulsions as a prototype of multifunctional vehicles for different administration routes: physicochemical and in vitro peculiarities important for dermal application. International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 550(1-2), 333-346.
  • Dekanski, D., Spremo-Potparević, B., Bajić, V., Živković, L., Topalović, D., Sredojević, D.N., Lazić, V., Nedeljković, J.M. (2018): Acute toxicity study in mice of orally administrated TiO2 nanoparticles functionalized with caffeic acid. Food and Chemical Toxicology, 115, 42-48.
  • Živković, L., Borozan, S., Čabarkapa, A., Topalović, D., Ciptasari, U., Bajić, V., Spremo-Potparević, B. (2017): Antigenotoxic Properties of Agaricus blazei against Hydrogen Peroxide in Human Peripheral Blood Cells. Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity, 2017, Article ID 8759764, 9 pages.
  • Cabarkapa, A., Dekanski, D., Zivkovic, L., Milanovic-Cabarkapa, M., Bajic, V., Topalovic, D., Giampieri, F., Gasparrini, M., Battino, M., Spremo-Potparevic, B. (2017): Unexpected effect of dry olive leaf extract on the level of DNA damage in lymphocytes of lead intoxicated workers, before and after CaNa2EDTA chelation therapy. Food and Chemical Toxicology, 106, 616-623.
  • Žukovec Topalović, D., Živković, L., Čabarkapa, A., Djelić, N., Bajić, V., Dekanski, D., Spremo-Potparević, B. (2015): Dry olive leaf extract counteracts L-thyroxine-induced genotoxicity in human peripheral blood leukocytes in vitro. Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity, Article ID 762192, 8 pages.