Pharmacology and Toxicology

Veronika Furlan has received a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry in 2015 and Master’s Degree in Chemistry in 2017 under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Urban Bren at the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Maribor, Slovenia. Her Master’s Thesis was focused on the examination of polyphenol [6]-gingerol from ginger and three-peptide glutathione as natural scavengers of ultimate chemical carcinogens. She was awarded for her Master’s Thesis in 2017. In 2017 she also started her PhD work in Chemistry at the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Maribor and joined Prof. Dr. Urban Bren’s laboratory. In her current projects, Veronika is applying quantum-mechanical simulations to identify the most potent blocking agents from various natural sources for cancer prevention and for the development of novel dietary supplements. She is also focused on applying molecular docking as well as molecular dynamics simulations to understand the binding mechanism of suppressing agents to enzymes associated with carcinogenesis.