Postdoctoral Researchers

Zaida María Abad Jiménez

Position: Postdoctoral Researcher
Email: zmabad@cipf.es

Zaida María Abad Jiménez obtained her degree in Nursing and Master's degree in Physiology from the University of Valencia in 2017. After defending her Master's thesis, she joined the "Translational Research in Nutrition and Metabolism" group at FISABIO. During her predoctoral stage, she made a scientific stay at the University Hospital of Maastricht to evaluate the effect of diet on the cardiovascular system and vasomotion in patients with obesity. Her doctoral thesis is entitled "Study of the effect of Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery on the molecular mechanisms associated with the pathophysiology of obesity" and was defended in December 2022 as part of the Ph.D. program in Physiology at the University of Valencia (outstanding, Cum Laude distinction, with international mention). She is a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratory of Polymers Therapeutic, thanks to a competitive Juan de la Cierva (JDC2022-048668-I) contract. Her project focuses on the role of adipose tissue in women with obesity and triple negative breast cancer.

Snežana Đorđević

Position: Postdoctoral Researcher
Email: sdordevic@cipf.es

Snežana Đorđević obtained her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Pharmacy at the University of Belgrade (Serbia) in 2014. Since September 2016, she has been enrolled in the Joint Erasmus Mundus Master's Degree Program (Excellence in Analytical Chemistry- EACH) between the University of Tartu (Estonia) and Uppsala University (Sweden), focusing on liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) methods in bioorganic analysis. After defending her Master's thesis at Uppsala University, she joined the Polymer Therapeutics Laboratory research group as a Ph.D. student in February 2019. She recently finished her Ph.D. project on developing analytical methods for better characterization of newly synthesized polymer-drug conjugates and their analysis in biological fluids. Snežana Đorđević defended her doctoral thesis in May 2023 as a part of the Doctoral program in Chemistry at Polytechnic University of Valencia with the grade sobresaliente, Cum Laude distinction, and international degree. Her Ph.D. project focused on developing analytical methods for the routine and highly accurate characterization of polypeptide-drug conjugates compared to conventional methodologies. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Polymer Therapeutics Laboratory, where she continues with the implementation of LC-MS and FFF to understand polypeptide-drug conjugate fate in biological media better and predict outcomes from analyzed physico-chemical parameters.