„VINČA” Institute of Nuclear Sciences – National Institute of the Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade

The lead institution of the FerroReg project is VINČA” Institute of Nuclear Sciences – National Institute of the Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia (VINS), which is the largest scientific institute in Serbia with around 800 employees from whom 500 are researches. It is a leading institute in fundamental/applied research, international research cooperation, scientific personnel quality and facilities. It possesses wide scientific capacities/infrastructure for the most ambitious national/international research. VINS has been actively involved in education at the University and in 73 national as well as over 60 international projects with project coordination/management experience.

Website: www.vin.bg.ac.rs

Principal Investigator: dr Maja Živković, ORCID: 0000-0002-0447-6626

Project team is consisted of twelve members. Ten of them are from the VINS, while two are from the other paricipating research organizations.

The Medical Faculty of the Military Medical Academy

The Medical Faculty of the Military Medical Academy is one of the leading public institutions that perform educational, scientific-research, health and publishing activities. The long-term goals of their faculty program are education of the professionals to acquire communication skills and development methods for applied knowledge in the different spheres of medical profession and science. Therefore, the final goal is the formation of qualitative medical experts who acquired the top ethical and professional standards thus being completely qualified not only for individual medical practice in primary healthcare protection system but also for carrying out the work of scientific research.

Website: www.mfvma.mod.gov.rs

Institute for Medical Research, Natonal Institut of the Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade

Institute for Medical Research, Natonal Institut of the Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade is a leading national scientific institute in the field of biomedical sciences established by the Serbian Academy of Science with a mission to contribute to human health trough high quality scientific research. It has 93 members, of which more than 80 are researchers of different scientific backgrounds. Center of excellence for food and metabolism (CENM) within the Institute is focused on assessment of metabolic health and lipid metabolism research and complex interactions of nutrient intake-status-health effects, as well as the evaluation of the role of nutritive therapy in the prevention and treatment of non-communicable diseases. The Institute’s researches actively participate in European research projects.

IMI web site: www.imi.bg.ac.rs

CENM web site: http://srbnutrition.info/