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The William Harvey Research Institute - Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry

Professor Dunja Aksentijevic

Dunja

Professor of Cardiovascular Physiology and Metabolism, Wellcome Trust Career Re-Entry Fellow, Director of Education WHRI

Centre: Biochemical Pharmacology

Email: d.aksentijevic@qmul.ac.uk
Telephone: +44(0) 20 7882 5920
Twitter: @dunjaaks

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Programme Lead
MSc Clinical Drug Development, MSc Healthcare Research MethodsMRes Clinical Research

Dunja Aksentijevic is Professor of Cardiovascular Physiology and Metabolism at the William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London. Dunja graduated from the University of Hull in 2004 with a BSc (Hons First Class) in Biomedical Science and was the recipient of the Faculty of Science Academic Scholarship. She was awarded the University of Hull Frederick Atkinson Prize Scholarship and NHS Renal Research Fund Fellowship for her doctoral studies to examine myocardial insulin resistance in chronic kidney disease. Immediately upon completion of her doctoral thesis in 2008, she joined the group of Prof Stefan Neubauer at the Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford.

Her first postdoctoral position focused on investigating the therapeutic potential of modulating myocardial energetics in heart failure. In 2013, she moved to King’s College London, The Rayne Institute, St Thomas Hospital as the senior research fellow in the laboratory of Prof Michael Shattock to study impact of sodium modulation on heart metabolism. In 2017 Dunja was appointed Lecturer in Physiology/Biochemistry at the School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London. In 2020, she joined William Harvey Research Institute (British Heart Foundation Accelerator Fellow) and in 2021 received her Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellowship. 

Current roles include Programme Lead for MSc Clinical Drug Development, MSc Healthcare Research Methods, MRes Clinical Research, Academic Visitor University of Oxford, Honorary Research Fellow King’s College London.

Awards and Honours

  • British Society for Cardiovascular Research, Committee Member
  • International Academy of Sciences and Arts Bosnia and Herzegovina, Corresponding Member
  • Queen Mary Education Excellence Award (Biomedical Science)
  • Bosnian-Herzegovinian American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Corresponding Member
  • Queen Mary Faculty of Science and Engineering, Education Excellence Award
  • Teaching Excellence Award in Biomedical Science, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
  • Fellow of the Institute of Biomedical Science
  • Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology  

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