E-mail: sivkovic@vinca.rs
Phone: +381 64 954 39865
ORCID: 0000-0002-7977-3166
  • PhD: Molecular Biology, Belgrade University, 1997.

    MSc: Molecular Biology, Belgrade University, 1992.

    BSc: Molecular Biology, Belgrade University, 1991.

     

    Professional training

    2011- 2015 Marie Cuire Wellcome II Fellow, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisbon, Portugal     

    2008- 2011, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA     

    2004- 2008, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA     

    1998 – 2004, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    1997 – 1998, New York University (NYU), New York, NY, USA

  • Research fields

    Modeling and developing treatments for neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders

    Selected publications

    1. Fatty acids as biomodulators of Piezo1 mediated glial mechanosensitivity in Alzheimer's disease. Ivkovic S, Major T, Mitic M, Loncarevic-Vasiljkovic N, Jovic M, Adzic M. Life Sci. 2022 Mar 10;297:120470. doi: 10.1016/j.lfs.2022.120470. PMID: 35283177 
    2. Radulovic J, Ivkovic S, Adzic M. (2022) From chronic stress to neurodegeneration: focus on neuromodulation of the axon initial segment, Handb Clin Neurology, 184: 481-495.
    3. Jović M, Lončarević-Vasiljković N, Ivković S, Dinić J, Milanović D, Zlokovic B, Kanazir S. (2019) Short-term fish oil supplementation applied in presymptomatic stage of Alzheimer's disease enhances microglial/macrophage barrier and prevents neuritic dystrophy in parietal cortex of 5xFAD mouse model. PLoS One 16;14(5):e0216726.
    4. Ivkovic, B.S. Yoon, S.N. Popoff, F.F. Safadi, D.E. Libuda, R.C. Stephenson, A. Daluiski and K.M. Lyons (2003) Connective tissue growth factor coordinates chondrogenesis and angiogenesis during skeletal development. Development 30: 2779-2791.
    5. H. Wu, S. Ivkovic, R.C. Murray, S. Jaramillo, K.M. Lyons, J.E. Johnson and A.L. Calof (2003) Autoregulation of neurogenesis by GDF 11. Neuron 37: 197-207.