On 17 March 2023, on the occasion of the Dies Academicus 2022 ceremony, Marija Mazor, PhD, from the Center for Proteomics received the Borislav Nakić award of the Croatian Academy of Medical Sciences for best scientific paper published in 2021.
Tomac J, Mazor M, Lisnić B, Golemac M, Kveštak D, Bralić M, Bilić Zulle L, Brinkmann MM, Dölken L, Reinert LS, Paludan SR, Krmpotić A, Jonjić S, Juranić Lisnić V. Viral infection of the ovaries compromises pregnancy and reveals innate immune mechanisms protecting fertility. Immunity Volume 54, Issue 7, 13 July 2021, Pages 1478-1493.e6
The topic of the scientific paper is the research on the pathogenesis of cytomegalovirus in the ovaries and its effect on fertility and protection of pregnancy. The paper was published in the prestigious journal Immunity with an impact factor of 43.7.