Ivana Gađanski

Position:Senior researcher

Academic Rank: Senior research associate in the field of natural/mathematical sciences - biology

Ivana Gadjanski PhD is Research Associate Professor at BioSense Institute, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. She graduated from the Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade as the 1st in the class (2003). She obtained PhD in Neuroscience (summa cum laude -oral presentation) from Georg-August University & Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen, Germany (2007) and worked as a postdoctorate researcher at Ludwig-Maximillian University, Munich, Germany. Ivana then turned to the bioengineering field and spent a year as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, USA – Lab for Stem cells and Tissue Engineering (Head: prof. Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic). In BioSense, she is moving further into the cellular agriculture field – developing solutions for cultivated meat. She also works on biosensing for agrifood, biomedicine and environmental monitoring. Ivana is a grantee of the Good Food Institute and coordinator of Horizon2020 projects DRAGON GA 810755 and IPANEMA GA 872662.

Center:

CBS

Themes:

1. Biomolecular engineering

2. Cellular agriculture

3. Microfluidics

Projects:

1. ANTARES- Centre of Excellence for Advanced Technologies in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security

2. DRAGON -Data Driven Precision Agriculture Services and Skill Acquisition

3. IPANEMA – Integration of PAper-based Nucleic acid testing mEthods into Microfluidic devices for improved biosensing Applications

4. REALSENSE1 – Monitoring of cell culture parameters using sensors for biomass and nutrients/metabolites in media: Lab-on-a-Chip (LOC) approach, 2019-2021; Good Food Institute 2018 Competitive Grant Program

5. REALSENSE2- FROM LAB-ON-A-CHIP TO CUSTOM BIOREACTOR: SCALE UP MODELING STUDY, 2019-2021; Good Food Institute 2018 Competitive Grant Program

6. PRECAST – Prediction of Cancer Treatment Effectiveness with Stimuli-responsive Nanomaterials

7. Nanostructured multifunctional materials and nanocomposites

8. NANOFACTS – Networking Activities for Nanotechnology-Facilitated Cancer Theranostics

9. DIBMES- Development and Integration of Microfluidic Biosensors for Meat Safety monitoring in farm-to-slaughterhouse continuum

10. KOMUNALT- Enhancement of knowledge and COMMUNication skills of researchers in ALTernative protein field

11. Development of magnetic sensors for rapid detection of the Salmonella serotype common in Serbia and Portugal

12. Development of plant-based edible microcarriers and scaffolds for use in cellular agriculture i.e. cultivated meat tissue engineering

Publications:

1. Vidic, J., Vizzini, P., Manzano, M., Kavanaugh, D., Ramarao, N., Zivkovic, M., Radonic, V., Knezevic, N., Giouroudi, I. and Gadjanski, I., 2019. Point-of-need DNA testing for detection of foodborne pathogenic bacteria. Sensors, 19(5), p.1100.
2. Knežević, N.Ž., Gadjanski, I. and Durand, J.O., 2019. Magnetic nanoarchitectures for cancer sensing, imaging and therapy. Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 7(1), pp.9-23.
3. Gadjanski, I., Yodmuang, S., Spiller, K., Bhumiratana, S. and Vunjak-Novakovic, G., 2013. Supplementation of exogenous adenosine 5′-triphosphate enhances mechanical properties of 3D cell–agarose constructs for cartilage tissue engineering. Tissue Engineering Part A, 19(19-20), pp.2188-2200.
4. Yodmuang, S., Gadjanski, I., Chao, P.H.G. and Vunjak‐Novakovic, G., 2013. Transient hypoxia improves matrix properties in tissue engineered cartilage. Journal of orthopaedic research, 31(4), pp.544-553.
5. Gadjanski, I., 2018. Mimetic hierarchical approaches for osteochondral tissue engineering. In Osteochondral Tissue Engineering (pp. 143-170). Springer, Cham.

Patent:

- Planar electrode for biosensors realized using repetitive fractal geometry