Call for Papers 

Special Issue "Cancer Chemoresistance: Novel Mechanistic Insights and Emerging Therapeutic Strategies

 

A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Pathology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics". 

 

Special Issue Editor: Dr. Mirela Sedic 

 

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2021 

 

Special Issue Information can be found on the following link: 

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijms/special_issues/Cancer_Chemoresistance_Therapeutic 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

SANDRA KRALJEVIĆ PAVELIĆ Ova e-mail adresa je zaštićena od spambota. Potrebno je omogućiti JavaScript da je vidite. Professor

Sandra Kraljević Pavelić graduated at the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia in 1997 (professor of biology) where she obtained her MSc. in science in 2003 and her PhD. in 2006 as well. From December, 2002 - September 2009 she was employed at the “Ruđer Bošković” Institute in Zagreb, Croatia. She is employed at the University of Rijeka, Faculty of Health Studies. Since 2014, she is a member of the Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS) medicine panel, and since 2017 she is a member of the European Science Foundation (ESF, Strassbourg, France) biomedical panel. Since 2017 she is a member of the Creative Team's Executive Board on the University of Rijeka Project “27th Neighborhood Program of the European capital of culture 2020”. From 2015 to 2018 she was Head of the University of Rijeka Center for High Throughput Technologies and since July 2018 she is Head of the Doctoral School of the University of Rijeka. She leads or led 6 domestic and international projects, coordinated one EU project, leads the project of the Center for Excellence for Bioprocessing of the Adriatic Sea in front of University of Rijeka, three projects with industry and one project with local administration. The scientific work of Sandra Kraljević Pavelić covers the area of drug/medical products development and research on pathogenesis of disease mechanisms. She mentored 15 graduate theses, 10 doctoral dissertations and published 98 scientific papers (ORCID: 0000-0003-0491-673X), 15 chapters in the book, 1 co-authored book, and has 2 patents.

Some publications of Dr. Kraljevic Pavelic over the last 5 years:

1. Pavelić K, Martinović T, Kraljević Pavelić S* (2015). Do we understand the personalized medicine paradigm? EMBO rep, 16 (2):133-136.

2. Kraljevic Pavelic S*, Klobučar M, Sedić M, Micek V, Gehrig P, Grossman J, Pavelić K, Vojniković B (2015) UV-induced retinal proteome changes in the rat model of age-related macular degeneration. BBA - Mol Basis Dis 1852 (9): 1687-2012.

3. Ratkaj I, Zurga P, Bulog A, Peter-Katalinić J, Kraljević Pavelić S* (2015) 70-kDa heat shock cognate protein expression as a putative biomarker of heavy-metal burden in Mytilus galloprovincialis. SpringerPlus, 4:344

4. Rešetar D., Marchetti-Deschmann M., Allmaier G., Peter Katalinić J, Kraljević Pavelić S* (2016) Matrix assisted laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry linear time-of-flight method for white wine fingerprinting and classification, Food control 64: 157–164

5. Peršurić Ž., Osuga J., Galinac Grbac T., Peter-Katalinić J., Kraljević Pavelić S*. (2017) MALDI-SpiralTOF technology for assessment of triacylglycerols in Croatian olive oils, Eur J Lipid Sci Technol 119(2): 1500375-1500385.

6. Klobučar M, Sedić M, Gehrig P, Grossmann J, Bilić M, Kovač-Bilić L, Pavelić K, Kraljević Pavelić S* (2016) Basement membrane protein ladinin-1 and the MIF-CD44-B1 integrin signaling axis are implicated in laryngeal cancer metastasis, BBA Mol basis dis 1862 (10): 1938–1954.

7. Gazivoda Kraljević T, Harej A, Sedić M, Kraljević Pavelić S, Stepanić V, Drenjančević D, Talapko J, Raić-Malić S (2016) Synthesis, in vitro anticancer and antibacterial activities and in silico studies of new 4-substituted 1,2,3-triazole–coumarin hybrids, Eur J Med Chem, 124:794- 808.

8. Tireli M, Starčević K, Martinović T, Kraljević Pavelić S, Karminski-Zamola G, Hranjec M (2016) Antioxidative and antiproliferative activities of novel pyrido[1,2-a]benzimidazoles, Molecular Diversity, 21 (1):201–210.

9. Gregorić T, Sedić M, Grbčić P, Tomljenović Paravić A, Kraljević Pavelić S, Cetina M, Vianello R, Raić-Malić S (2016) Novel pyrimidine-2,4-dione-1,2,3-triazole and furo[2,3- d]pyrimidine-2-one-1,2,3-triazole hybrids as potential anti-cancer agents: Synthesis, computational and X-ray analysis and biological evaluation, Eur J Med Chem, 125, 1247-1267

10. Racané L, Sedić M, Ilić N, Aleksić M, Kraljević Pavelić S, Karminski-Zamola G. (2017) Novel 2-Thienyl- and 2-Benzothienyl-Substituted 6-(2-Imidazolinyl)Benzothiazoles: Synthesis; in vitro Evaluation of Antitumor Effects and Assessment of Mitochondrial Toxicity. Anticancer Agents Med Chem. 17(1):57-66

11. Grbčić P, Tomljanović I, Klobučar M, Kraljević Pavelić S, Lučin K, Sedić M (2017) Dual sphingosine kinase inhibitor SKI-II enhances sensitivity to 5-fluorouracil in hepatocellular carcinoma cells via suppression of osteopontin and FAK/IGF-1R signalling. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 487(4):782-788.

12. Andrea Bistrović, Anja Harej, Petra Grbčić, Mirela Sedić, Sandra Kraljević Pavelić, Mario Cetina, Silvana Raić-Malić (2017) Synthesis and Anti-Proliferative Effects of Mono- and Bis-Purinomimetics Targeting Kinases, Int. J Mol Sci 18(11), 2292

13. Jergović A-M, Peršurić Ž, Saftić L, Kraljević Pavelić S* (2017): Evaluation of MALDITOF/MS technology in olive oil adulteration, J Amer Oil Chem Soc 94(6):749–757.

14. Franzoni A, Markova-Car E, Devic-Pavlic S, Jurisic D, Puppin C, Mio C, Marila De Luca M, Petruz G, Damante, Kraljevic Pavelic S* (2017) A polymorphic GGC repeat in the NPAS2 gene and its association with melanoma. Experimental Biology and Medicine 242 (15): 1553- 1558.

15. Kraljević Pavelić S*, Micek V, Filošević A, Gumbarević D, Žurga P, Bulog A, Orct T, Yamamoto Y, Preočanin T, Plavec J, Peter R, Petravić M, Vikić-Topić D, Pavelić K (2017): Novel, oxygenated clinoptilolite material efficiently removes aluminium from aluminium chloride intoxicated rats in vivo. Micropor Mesopor Mat 249(1); 146-156.

16. Klobučar M, Visentin S, Jakovčević A, Bilić M, Kovač-Bilić L, Đanić D, Pavelić K, Kraljević Pavelić S (2017) Expression of polysialic acid in primary laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma. Life Sciences 173:73-79.

17. Lončar-Brzak B, Klobučar M, Veliki-Dalić I, Sabol I, Kraljević Pavelić S, Krušlin B, MravakStipetić M (2018) Expression of small leucine rich extracellular matrix proteoglycans biglycan and lumican reveals oral lichen planus malignant potential, Clin Oral Invest, 22(2), 1071-1082.

18. Glamocija U, Padhye S, Spirtovic-Halilovic S, Osmanović A, Veljović E, Roca S, Novaković I, Mandić B, Turel I, Kljun J, Trifunović S, Kahrović E, Kraljević Pavelić S, Harej A, Klobučar M, Završnik D. (2018) Synthesis, Biological Evaluation and Docking Studies of Benzoxazoles Derived from Thymoquinone. Molecules 23 (12); 3297-3314.

19. Klobucar M, Grbcic P, Pavelic Kraljevic S, Jonjić N, Visentin S, Sedić M (2018) Acid ceramidase inhibition sensitizes human colon cancer cells to oxaliplatin through downregulation of transglutaminase 2 and beta 1 integrin/FAK - mediated signalling. BBRC 503 (2); 843-848.

20. Peršurić Ž, Saftić L, Mašek T, Kraljević Pavelić S* (2018) Comparison of triacylglycerol analysis by MALDI-TOF/MS, fatty acid analysis by GC-MS and non-selective analysis by NIRS in combination with chemometrics for determination of extra virgin olive oil geographical origin. A case study. LWT - Food Science and Technology 95: 326–332.

21. Kraljević Pavelić S*, Simović Medica S, Gumbarević D, Filošević A, Pržulj N, Pavelić K. (2018) Critical Review on Zeolite Clinoptilolite Safety and Medical Applications in vivo. Frontiers in pharmacology 9:1350, https://doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2018.01350

22. Rešetar Maslov D, Svirkova A, Allmaier G, Marchetti-Deschamann M, Kraljevic Pavelic S* (2019) Optimization of MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry imaging for the visualization and comparison of peptide distributions in dry-cured ham muscle fibers, Food Chemistry, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2018.12.126

Iris Car is a PhD student at the doctoral study “Medicinal Chemistry” under the supervision of associate professor Mirela Sedić. She has a master’s degree in biotechnology in medicine. Her skills include protein isolation, purification and detection using two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2DE) and MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry. Her area of scientific interest includes proteomic, secretomic and N-glycomic profiling of colorectal carcinoma with acquired chemoresistance to vemurafenib therapy. In 2019 Car attended two international conferences, the 15th International Central European Oncology Congress where she held an oral presentation entitled “Proteomic profiling of BRAF V600E-mutant colon cancer cells with acquired resistance to vemurafenib”, and 1st Alps-Adria Rectoral Conference with an oral presentation “Secretome analysis of BRAF V600E-mutant colon cancer cells with acquired resistance to vemurafenib”. She also attended the 13th School of Mass Spectrometry in Biotechnology and Medicine in July 2019.

Dr Mirela Sedic (born Bauman) (ORCID iD https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4679-1541; https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mirela_Sedic) is Associate Professor at the University of Rijeka Department of Biotechnology in Croatia. She has authored 50 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals including high-impact journals such as BBA Molecular Basis of Disease, Molecular Cancer, The Journal of Pathology, Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry and Cancer Treatment Reviews, 4 book chapters and 3 student handbooks. She has got one international patent (WO/2010/052510). Her work has been cited 924 times (h-index 15; i10-index 24).

She was a reviewer for several international peer-reviewed scientific journals including Current Medicinal Chemistry, Cancer Cell International, Cancer Management and Research, Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research, Journal of Cancer Research & Therapy, OncoTargets and Therapy, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Cancers, Cells, and Molecules. She is also a member of Editorial Board of Global Journal of Cancer Therapy (since September 2014), American Journal of Pharmacology & Therapeutics (since May 2018), Current Cancer Therapy Reviews (since July 2018), and Clinical Cancer Drugs (since November 2018). She has been appointed by the European Commission as an expert to evaluate the project proposals submitted to calls under the FP7 HEALTH and HORIZON2020 funding schemes since 2012 onwards.

She was the co-PI of international collaborative project with Functional Genomics Center Zurich in Switzerland (PRIME-XS-0000184 Proteomic profiling of retinal proteins from rat model of age-related macular degeneration from 2012-2014) and the PI of the University of Rijeka research grant No. 13.11.2.1.12 “Screening and biological evaluation of acid ceramidase and sphingosine kinase inhibitors as a new class of anti-tumour agents” (from October 2014 – June 2017). She is currently the PI of the project funded by the Croatian Science Foundation No. 2018-01 3900 “Dissecting the mechanisms of therapy resistance in BRAF-mutant colon cancer using an integrated –omics approach” (2019 – 2023) and the PI of the University of Rijeka research grant No. uniri-biomed-18-76 1209 “Molecular features associated with BRAFV600E-mutated versus wild type BRAF colorectal cancer” (2019-2022). She is also the PI of the project No. 3238 - EPIC-XS 012: “Proteomic analysis of acquired resistance to vemurafenib in BRAF V600E–mutant colon cancer cells” in collaboration with the University in Zurich/ Functional Genomics Center Zurich (6th August 2019-7th August 2022).

Major research interests of Dr Sedic include investigating molecular mechanisms of novel anticancer drugs, chemoresistance, novel combination treatments against cancer, cancer biology, cancer microenvironment, sphingolipids in cancer biology and treatment, and mass spectrometry-based proteomics, protein networks and protein-protein interaction analysis. 

 

Dr Sedic’s publications over the last 5 years: 

  1. Grbčić P, Car EPM, Sedić M. Targeting Ceramide Metabolism in Hepatocellular Carcinoma: New Points for Therapeutic Intervention. Curr Med Chem. 2019 Sep 11. doi: 10.2174/0929867326666190911115722. [Epub ahead of print]
  2. Sedić M, Grbčić P, Pavelić SK. Bioactive Sphingolipids as Biomarkers Predictive of Disease Severity and Treatment Response in Cancer: Current Status and Translational Challenges. Anticancer Res. 2019 Jan;39(1):41-56. doi: 10.21873/anticanres.13078.
  3. Visentin S, Sedić M, Pavelić SK, Pavelić K. Targeting tumour metastasis: the emerging role of nanotechnology. Curr Med Chem. 2018 Dec 19. doi: 10.2174/0929867326666181220095343. [Epub ahead of print]
  4. Klobučar M, Grbčić P, Pavelić SK, Jonjić N, Visentin S, Sedić M. Acid ceramidase inhibition sensitizes human colon cancer cells to oxaliplatin through downregulation of transglutaminase 2 and β1 integrin/FAK-mediated signalling. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2018 Sep 5;503(2):843-848. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2018.06.085. Epub 2018 Jun 21.
  5. Racané L, Ptiček L, Sedić M, Grbčić P, Kraljević Pavelić S, Bertoša B, Sović I, Karminski-Zamola G. Eco-friendly synthesis, in vitro anti-proliferative evaluation, and 3D-QSAR analysis of a novel series of monocationic 2-aryl/heteroaryl-substituted 6-(2-imidazolinyl)benzothiazole mesylates. Mol Divers. 2018 Apr 17. doi: 10.1007/s11030-018-9827-2. [Epub ahead of print]
  6. Jelovica M, Grbčić P, Mušković M, Sedić M, Pavelić SK, Lončarić M, Malatesti N. In Vitro Photodynamic Activity of N-Methylated and N-Oxidised Tripyridyl Porphyrins with Long Alkyl Chains and Their Inhibitory Activity in Sphingolipid Metabolism. ChemMedChem. 2018 Feb 20;13(4):360-372. doi: 10.1002/cmdc.201700748. Epub 2018 Jan 30.
  7. Bistrović A, Grbčić P, Harej A, Sedić M*, Kraljević-Pavelić S, Koštrun S, Plavec J, Makuc D, Raić-Malić S*. Small molecule purine and pseudopurine derivatives: synthesis, cytostatic evaluations and investigation of growth inhibitory effect in non-small cell lung cancer A549. J Enzyme Inhib Med Chem. 2018 Dec;33(1):271-285. doi: 10.1080/14756366.2017.1414807.
  8. Bistrović A, Krstulović L, Harej A, Grbčić P, Sedić M*, Koštrun S, Pavelić SK, Bajić M, Raić-Malić S.* Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of novel benzimidazole amidines as potent multi-target inhibitors for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer. Eur J Med Chem. 2018 Jan 1;143:1616-1634. doi: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2017.10.061. Epub 2017 Nov 11.
  9. Bistrović A, Harej A, Grbčić P, Sedić M*, Kraljević Pavelić S, Cetina M, Raić-Malić S.* Synthesis and Anti-Proliferative Effects of Mono- and Bis-Purinomimetics Targeting Kinases. Int J Mol Sci. 2017 Nov 1;18(11). pii: E2292. doi: 10.3390/ijms18112292.
  10. Grbčić P, Tomljanović I, Klobučar M, Kraljević Pavelić S, Lučin K, Sedić M. Dual sphingosine kinase inhibitor SKI-II enhances sensitivity to 5-fluorouracil in hepatocellular carcinoma cells via suppression of osteopontin and FAK/IGF-1R signalling. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2017 Jun 10;487(4):782-788. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2017.04.100. Epub 2017 Apr 19.
  11. Gregorić T, Sedić M*, Grbčić P, Tomljenović Paravić A, Kraljević Pavelić S, Cetina M, Vianello R*, Raić-Malić S.* Novel pyrimidine-2,4-dione-1,2,3-triazole and furo[2,3-d]pyrimidine-2-one-1,2,3-triazole hybrids as potential anti-cancer agents: Synthesis, computational and X-ray analysis and biological evaluation. Eur J Med Chem. 2017 Jan 5;125:1247-1267. doi: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2016.11.028.
  12. Kraljević TG, Harej A, Sedić M, Pavelić SK, Stepanić V, Drenjančević D, Talapko J, Raić-Malić S. Synthesis, in vitro anticancer and antibacterial activities and in silico studies of new 4-substituted 1,2,3-triazole–coumarin hybrids. Eur J Med Chem. 2016 Nov 29;124:794-808. doi: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2016.08.062. Epub 2016 Aug 31.
  13. Marko Klobučar , Mirela Sedić, Peter Gehrig, Jonas Grossmann, Mario Bilić , Lana Kovač-Bilić , Krešimir Pavelić , Sandra Kraljević Pavelić. Basement membrane protein ladinin-1 and the MIF-CD44-β1 integrin signaling axis are implicated in laryngeal cancer metastasis. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease, 2016 1862(10):1938-54. doi: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2016.07.014. Epub 2016 Jul 25
  14. Z. Rajić-Džolić, I. Perković, S. Kraljević Pavelić, M. Sedić, Nataša Ilić, D. Schols, B. Zorc. "Design, synthesis and cytostatic activity of novel pyrazine sorafenib analogues" , Medicinal Chemistry Research 25 (12), 2729-2741, July 2016. doi:10.1007/s00044-016-1667-y
  15. Kraljević Pavelić S, Klobučar M, Sedić M, Micek V, Gehrig P, Grossman J, Pavelić K, Vojniković B. UV-induced retinal proteome changes in the rat model of age-related macular degeneration. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease, Volume 1852, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 1833–1845.
  16. Sedic M, Gethings LA, Vissers JP, Shockcor JP, McDonald S, Vasieva O, Lemac M, Langridge JI, Batinić D, Pavelić SK. Label-free mass spectrometric profiling of urinary proteins and metabolites from paediatric idiopathic nephrotic syndrome. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2014 Sep 12;452(1):21-6.

Petra Grbčić, mag. pharm. inv. is currently a PhD student at doctoral study ”Medicinal Chemistry” under supervision of associate professor Mirela Sedić and research assistant on "Bioprospecting of Adriatic sea" project at the University of Rijeka Department of Biotechnology (Laboratory for systems biomedicine and genomics, laboratory head: associate professor Sandra Kraljević Pavelić). Her skills in maintaining cell cultures, in vitro cell viability assays, detection of apoptosis, migration and invasion studies, cell motility and development of chemoresistant cell lines, as well as techniques for protein isolation, purification, quantification and detection of their expression by Western blot method, two dimensional electrophoresis (2DE)  and mass spectrometry analysis were developed by working on several different projects in the Laboratory for systems biomedicine and genomics at Department of Biotechnology. The area of scientific interest of P. Grbčić mostly includes sphingolipids in therapy and pathogenesis of cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma and colorectal carcinoma), and sphingolipid involvement in chemoresistance development. She attended the 11th International Central European Oncology Congress where she held an oral presentation entitled „Sphingosine kinase inhibition sensitizes hepatocellular carcinoma cells to chemotherapy“ in 2015. In 2016, she participated in the 14th Gordon Research Conference Glycolipid and Sphingolipid Homeostasis and Function in Health and Disease in Tuscany, Italy with a poster presentation entitled „Dual inhibition of sphingosine kinase 1⁄2 enhances antitumor activity of 5-fluoruracil in human hepatocellular carcinoma cells in vitro“. She was awarded the best oral presentation entitled “Acid ceramidase activity regulates the sensitivity of human colon cancer cells to oxaliplatin” on 13th International Central European Oncology Congress in 2017. In addition, her experimental work was presented on 5 poster presentations on national and international congresses. She has authored 8 original scientific papers and 2 review papers in peer-reviewed journals that have been cited 100 times (h-index 5; i10-index 3).

She is a collaborator on the University of Rijeka research grant uniri-biomed-18-76 Molecular features associated with BRAFV600E-mutated versus wild type BRAF colorectal cancer and a research assistant on project: “Dissecting the mechanisms of therapy resistance in BRAF-mutant colon cancer using an integrated –omics approach” founded by Croatian Science Fundation.

She was recognized as the best young scientist in University of Rijeka for academic year 2017. and won a scholarship to attend BIOPROSP_19 conference in Tromso, Norway.  She has also attended „The InnoMol New Platforms for Molecular Solutions in Research and Development“ workshop on Ruđer Bošković institute, Zagreb and training on Olympus microscopes.

 Research papers:

 

 

  1. Petra Grbčić and Mirela Sedić. Sphingosine 1-Phosphate Signaling and Metabolism in Chemoprevention and Chemoresistance in Colon Cancer. Molecules 2020, 25(10), 2436. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules25102436
  2. Valentina Rep, Martina Piškor, Helena Šimek, Petra Mišetić, Petra Grbčić, Jasna Padovan, Vesna Gabelica Marković, Dijana Jadreško, Krešimir Pavelić, Sandra Kraljević Pavelić, Silvana Raić-MalićPurine and Purine Isostere Derivatives of Ferrocene: An Evaluation of ADME, Antitumor and Electrochemical Properties. Molecules 2020, 25(7), 1570. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules25071570
  3. Grbčić P, Car EPM, Sedić M. Targeting Ceramide Metabolism in Hepatocellular Carcinoma: New Points for Therapeutic Intervention. Curr Med Chem. 2019 Sep 11. doi: 10.2174/0929867326666190911115722.
  4. Sedić, Mirela; Grbčić, Petra; Kraljević Pavelić, Sandra; Bioactive Sphingolipids as Biomarkers Predictive of Disease Severity and Treatment Response in Cancer: Current Status and Translational Challenges; Anticancer Research39: 41-56(2019) doi:10.21873/anticanres.13078
  5. Klobučar, Marko*; Grbčić, Petra*; Kraljević Pavelić, Sandra; Jonjić, Nives; Visentin, Sarah; Sedić, Mirela. Acid ceramidase inhibition sensitizes human colon cancer cells to oxaliplatin through downregulation of transglutaminase 2 and β1 integrin/FAK-mediated signalling. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2018 Jun 21. pii: S0006-291X(18)31397-4. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2018.06.085. (*equal contribution) IF 2.559
  6. Racané, Livio; Ptiček, Lucija; Sedić, Mirela; Grbčić, Petra; Kraljević Pavelić, Sandra; Bertoša, Branimir; Sović, Irena; Karminski- Zamola, Grace. Eco-friendly synthesis, in vitro anti- proliferative evaluation and 3D-QSAR analysis of a novel series of monocationic 2- aryl/heteroaryl-substituted 6-(2- imidazolinyl)benzothiazole mesylates // Molecular diversity (2018)
  7. Bistrović, Andrea*; Grbčić, Petra*; Harej, Anja; Sedić, Mirela; Kraljević Pavelić, Sandra; Koštrun, Sanja; Plavec, Janez; Makuc, Damjan; Raić-Malić, Silvana. Small molecule purine and pseudopurine derivatives: synthesis, cytostatic evaluations and investigation of growth inhibitory effect in non-small cell lung cancer A549. J Enzyme Inhib Med Chem. 2018 Dec;33(1):271-285. doi: 10.1080/14756366.2017.1414807. (*equal contribution) IF 4.293
  8. Andrea Bistrović, Luka Krstulović, Anja Harej, Petra Grbčić, Mirela Sedić*, Sanja Koštrun, Sandra Kraljević Pavelić, Miroslav Bajić, Silvana Raić-Malić* Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of novel benzimidazole amidines as potent multi-target inhibitors for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer, Eur J Med Chem. 2017 Nov 10. pii: S0223-5234(17)30863-2. doi:10.1016/j.ejmech.2017.10.061. IF 4.519
  9. Andrea Bistrović, Anja Harej, Petra Grbčić, Mirela Sedić, Sandra Kraljević Pavelić, Mario Cetina, Silvana Raić-Malić*. Synthesis and cytostatic evaluations of mono- and bis-purinomimetics targeting kinases, Int J Mol Sci. 2017 Nov;18(11):2292. doi:10.3390/ijms18112292. IF 3.226
  10. Grbčić P, Tomljanović I, Klobučar M, Kraljević Pavelić S, Lučin K, Sedić, M. Dual sphingosine kinase inhibitor SKI-II enhances sensitivity to 5-fluorouracil in hepatocellular carcinoma cells via suppression of osteopontin and FAK/IGF-1R signalling. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2017 Apr 19. IF 2.466
  11. Gregorić T, Sedić M, Grbčić P, Tomljenović Paravić A, Kraljević Pavelić S, Cetina M, Vianello R, Raić-Malić S. Novel pyrimidine-2,4- dione-1,2,3- triazole and furo[2,3-d]pyrimidine- 2-one- 1,2,3-triazole hybrids as potential anti-cancer agents: Synthesis, computational and X-ray analysis and biological evaluation. Eur J Med Chem. 2017 Jan 5;125:1247-1267. doi:10.1016/j.ejmech.2016.11.028. IF 4.519
  12. Jelovica, Mateo; Grbčić, Petra; Mušković, Martina; Sedić, Mirela; Pavelić, Sandra Kraljević; Lončarić, Martin; Malatesti, Nela; In Vitro Photodynamic Activity of N-Methylated and N-Oxidised Tripyridyl Porphyrins with Long Alkyl Chains and Their Inhibitory Activity in Sphingolipid Metabolism // ChemMedChem, 13 (2018), 4; 360-372 doi:10.1002/cmdc.201700748