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ficult asthma phenotypes, endotypes a specialist in pulmonology and allergolo- 143
and the role of multimorbidity. He holds gy. He earned a Ph.D. degree in 1998. In
grants with NIH, Asthma-UK and Indus- 2012 he was nominated as a full professor contributors
try, has an H-index of 36 and has pub- of internal medicine. He is a medical doc-
lished 93 scientific papers. tor and a head of the Department of Clin-
ical Research at the University Clinic of
Prof. Peter Korošec MD, PhD Respiratory and Allergic Diseases Golnik
and a head of the Chair of Internal medi-
Peter Korosec is Professor of Immunolo- cine at the Medical Faculty, University of
gy and Microbiology at University Clin- Ljubljana. His research interests are ana-
ic Golnik. He was awarded M.Sc. (1998) phylaxis, venom and drug allergy. He is
and Ph.D. (2001) at Medical Faculty in a project manager of a national research
Ljubljana. His professional training con- project P3 – 0360: Slovenian network of
sisted successive appointment as Special- allergy and asthma: from epidemiology to
ist in Clinical Laboratory Genetic (2015). genetics. He was a mentor of 8 Ph. D. stu-
He serves as the Associate Editor of Clini- dents. He is a president of Slovenian As-
cal & Experimental Allergy. sociation of Allergology and Clinical Im-
​Prof Korosec has worked tirelessly to munology and od Slovenian Respiratory
build the scientific basis of allergy and Society, a member of State expert body
pulmonology (https://scholar.google.si/ of internal medicine and a member of
Peter Korosec). His research has focused UEMS, section allergology. He published
upon the anaphylaxis, recombinant al- over 150 articles in journals with impact
lergens, basophils, asthma genetics, he- factor, his H-index is 42 and has 10.000
reditary angioedema and interstitial lung pure citations.
diseases. His studies of using Basophil Ac-
tivation Test (BAT) and recombinant al- Marina Lampalo MD, PhD
lergens substantially impacted clinical
practice in insect sting allergy. Marina Lampalo graduated from Uni-
​His current research programme com- versity of Zagreb, Medical school in 2001.
bines recent developments within the field Since March 2008 she has been working
of immunology and genetics. This ef- as internal medicine physician, and since
fort enabled the discovery of novel patho- 2010 as subspecialist pulmonologist, at
genesis pathways in anaphylaxis and the Clinic for Lung Diseases Jordanovac -
severe asthma, and helped identify phe- Department for Obstructive and Allergic
notype-specific immunological and ge- Diseases. In March 2019, she acquired the
netic risk factors. He has supervised 13 title of primarius.
PhD students to completion. Marina Lampalo, MD, PhD, became a
doctor of science in the field of natural
Prof. Mitja Košnik MD, PhD sciences, scientific field of biology, 2017. at
the Faculty of Science, University of Za-
He graduated at the Medical Faculty, greb, defending her dissertation entitled
University of Ljubljana in 1987. In 1992 “The effect of ABO blood genotypes and
he finished a specialisation of the inter- tissue plasminogen activator inhibitor on
nal medicine, latter he was nominated as lung ventilation in asthma”.
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