Roman Jerala#
| Membership Number: | 4566 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SLOVENIA |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.ki.si/en/odseki/d12-department-of-synthetic-biology-and-immunology |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-6337-5251 |
| Twitter: | @rjerala |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2002 head, Department of synthetic biology and immunology at the National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Since 2009 director of research area synthetic biology, Centre of Excellence EN-FIST, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Since 2010 professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, University of Ljubljana
- 1996 - 2001 research associate, Department of NMR spectroscopy and molecular modeling, National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- 1994 - 1995 postdoc, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
- 1988 - 1993 PhD student, Department of biochemistry, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Fields of Scholarship
- Designed bionanostructures
- Conformational diseases, prions
- Synthetic biology
- Antimicrobial peptides
- Molecular mechanism of innate immunity
- Biomolecular NMR spectroscopy
- Molecular modeling
Honours and Awards
- 2017 Elected as EMBO member
- 2016 Best project in Medicine, overgraduate division, iGEM competition (team leader)
- 2015 Elected member of the International Academy of Mathematical Chemistry
- 2014 Medal for services for the scientific and high school education achievements, awarded by the President of the Republic of Slovenia
- 2012 Finalist, Best project in health and medicine, first runner up at iGEM 2competition in synthetic biology (team leader)
- 2011 Rector’s award for the best innovations at the University of Ljubljana
- 2011 Gold medal at Biomod (Biomolecular design) competition (Wyss institute, Harvard University, team leader)
- 2011 Lapanje award by the Slovenian Biochemical Society
- 2010 Grand prize winner at iGEM, Best New Application, (team leader)
- 2009 Zois award (the highest national award for science)
- 2009 Pregl award by the National institute of chemistry
- 2009 Parliamentary lecture on Synthetic biology
- 2008 Grand prize winner at iGEM, Best project in Health and Medicine (team leader)
- 2008 Socrates award for high school didactics, SDVD
- 2007 Prometheus of Science award by the Slovenian Science Foundation
- 2007 Finalist, Best project in Health and Medicine at the iGEM (team leader)
- 2006 Grand Prize for the best project at the iGEM competition at MIT (team leader)
- 1991 Boris Kidric Slovenian state award for science
