Vanja Todorović, PhD

Vanja Todorović was born in 1986 in Leskovac. She graduated from the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Belgrade, majoring in pharmacy in 2010. She passed the professional exam in January 2012. She defended her doctoral dissertation "Investigation of cocoa powder’s antioxidant and antimicrobal potential and its impact on mice behavior after short-term and long-term supplementation" in 2018, and enrolled in specialist studies required by the healthcare system, program sanitary chemistry at the University of Belgrade - Faculty of Pharmacy in 2019. From 2011-2020, she participated in "Development and implementation of new and traditional technologies in production of competitive value-added food products on domestic and world market" national project. She became a teaching assistant at the Department of Bromatology in 2017, a Ph.D. teaching assistant in 2019, and assistant professor in 2022. She was acquired the scientific title of research associate in the field of medical sciences-pharmacy in 2020. She participates in conducting practical and theoretical classes in mandatory and elective courses within Department of Bromatology on undergraduate and postgraduate studies.

Vanja Todorović participates in four current international projects: COST action 17117 "EVBRES"; HORIZON 2020 project: "NeuroDeRisk"; CoVaST project; Erasmus Mundus Design Measures (EMDM) Erasmus + project "HYGIEIA"; and in completed one, COST Action 16112 "NutRedOx", during which she realized a two-month STSM at Department of Food Chemistry, Technology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Chemistry, Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland. She is a member of Management Committee in the current international project COST action 19105 "EpiLipidNET".

Vanja Todorović is raising her teaching and scientific work by attending numerous courses, schools and education in various fields of bromatology, such as FENS, IUNS, IUBMB, COST, EC grantee. She is the author and co-author of more than 70 scientific publications: 12 papers in journals from the SCI list, 4 papers in national journals and more than 50 presentations at international and national conferences. According to the Scopus database, the cumulative IF for published papers is 32.153, the citation exclude self-citations is 191, and the h-index is 7. She is a member of the Serbian Nutrition Society and international associations - International Lipidomics Society (ILS), IFT (Institute of Food Technologists), and ISCHOM (International Society for Chocolate and Cocoa in Medicine). She is a reviewer for international and national scientific journals.

• Todorovic, V., Milenkovic, M., Vidovic, B., Todorovic, Z., Sobajic, S. Correlation between Antimicrobial, Antioxidant Activity, and Polyphenols of Alkalized/Nonalkalized Cocoa Powders (2017) Journal of Food Science, 82 (4), pp. 1020-1027. DOI: 10.1111/1750-3841.13672
• Todorovic, V., Redovnikovic, I.R., Todorovic, Z., Jankovic, G., Dodevska, M., Sobajic, S. Polyphenols, methylxanthines, and antioxidant capacity of chocolates produced in Serbia (2015) Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, 41, pp. 137-143. DOI: 10.1016/j.jfca.2015.01.018
• Koss-Mikołajczyk, I., Todorovic, V., Sobajic, S., Mahajna, J., Gerić, M., Tur, J.A., Bartoszek, A. Natural products counteracting cardiotoxicity during cancer chemotherapy: The special case of doxorubicin, a comprehensive review (2021) International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 22 (18), art. no. 10037, DOI: 10.3390/ijms221810037
• Dabetić, N., Todorović, V., Panić, M., Redovniković, I.R., Šobajić, S. Impact of deep eutectic solvents on extraction of polyphenols from grape seeds and skin (2020) Applied Sciences (Switzerland), 10 (14), art. no. 4830, DOI: 10.3390/app10144830
• Baranowska, M., Suliborska, K., Todorovic, V., Kusznierewicz, B., Chrzanowski, W., Sobajic, S., Bartoszek, A. Interactions between bioactive components determine antioxidant, cytotoxic and nutrigenomic activity of cocoa powder extract (2020) Free Radical Biology and Medicine, 154, pp. 48-61. DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2020.04.022
• Dabetic, N.M., Todorovic, V.M., Djuricic, I.D., Antic Stankovic, J.A., Basic, Z.N., Vujovic, D.S., Sobajic, S.S. Grape Seed Oil Characterization: A Novel Approach for Oil Quality Assessment (2020) European Journal of Lipid Science and Technology, 122 (6), art. no. 1900447, DOI: 10.1002/ejlt.201900447
• Ćirić, M.Z., Dabetić, N., Todorović, V., Đuriš, J., Vidović, B. Beta-glucan content and antioxidant activities of mushroom-derived food supplements (2020) Journal of the Serbian Chemical Society, 85 (4), pp. 439-451. DOI: 10.2298/JSC190701121Z
• Koss-Mikołajczyk, I., Baranowska, M., Todorovic, V., Albini, A., Sansone, C., Andreoletti, P., Cherkaoui-Malki, M., Lizard, G., Noonan, D., Sobajic, S., Bartoszek, A. Prophylaxis of Non-communicable Diseases: Why fruits and vegetables may be better chemopreventive agents than dietary supplements based on isolated phytochemicals? (2019) Current Pharmaceutical Design, 25 (16), pp. 1847-1860. DOI:10.2174/1381612825666190702093301
• Stamenkovic, V., Milenkovic, I., Galjak, N., Todorovic, V., Andjus, P. Enriched environment alters the behavioral profile of tenascin-C deficient mice (2017) Behavioural Brain Research, 331, pp. 241-253. DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2017.05.047
• Jančić, D., Todorović, V., Basić, Z., Šobajić, S. Chemical composition and nutritive potential of Cichorium intybus L. leaves from Montenegro (2016) Journal of the Serbian Chemical Society, 81 (10), pp. 1141-1149. DOI: 10.2298/JSC160313057S