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Despite the pronounced recession, after several years of business with financial loss and loss in 2010 of 12.6 million HRK, Institute of Immunology in 2011 was operated with a profit of almost half a million HRK. This is the result of rational operations, financial consolidation and the ongoing process of restructuring the Institute

Researchers from the Institute of Immunology in collaboration with researchers from the Ruđer Bošković Institute and Vienna University of Technology have published a paper entitled Chromatography, mass spectrometry, and molecular modeling studies on ammodytoxins in Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry journal (IF 3,841)

Our scientists have published the article entitled Influence of charge ratio of liposome/DNA complexes on their size after extrusion and transfection efficiency in International Journal of Nanomedicine (IF 4.95)

Tihana Kurtović and collaborators have recently discovered, isolated and characterised the novel zinc-dependent metalloprotease from the long nosed viper venom, possessing strong haemorrhagic activity.

In September 2011. leaders of TRANSVAC, a collaborative infrastructure project funded under the European Commission’s (EC) 7th Framework Programme (FP7), have accepted the application of dr. Jelena Ivančić Jelečki and colleagues from Molecular Biomedicine Unit.

In 2006, a group of researchers and professionals formed a global Alliance for Rabies Control. They created and began inviting partners to join the World Rabies Day initiative.

Our scientists and experts working on bioassay standardization and validation have been invited to present their recent work on Robustness testing of live attenuated rubella vaccine potency assay using fractional factorial design of experiments, published in Vaccine in 2010, at the conference Biologics & Biotechnology: Advancing Quality Standards through Analytics & Assays.

Dr. Tanja Košutić Gulija and colleagues from Molecular Biomedicine Unit have published in 2011. in Electrophoresis Journal the article entitled ″Comparative analysis of CE-SSCP to standard RFLP-CE-FLA method for quantification of known viral variants within RNA virus quasispecies

The work of Dr.sc. Marija Brgles entitled „Selectivity of monolithic supports under overloading conditions and their use for separation of human plasma and isolation of low abundance proteins“ has been published in Journal of Chromatography A

Researches from the Institute of Immunology lead by dr. Dubravko Forčić have developed a new method for concentration of rubella virus.