Samo Guzelj was born in Ljubljana in 1993. After high scool graduation on Gimnazija Vič, he enrolled in the Uniform master’s study programme Pharmacy in the Faculty of pharmacy, University of Ljubljana. He finished his studies in 2017 under the mentorship of assoc. prof. Žiga Jakopin, Ph. D., with the master thesis Design and synthesis of xanthine oxidase inhibitors based on a pyridil-1,2,4-oxadiazole scaffold. Since september 2018 he is employed as a researcher in the Chair of Pharmaceutical Chemistry. In october 2018 he also started his postgraduate studies (direction Biomedicine) under the mentorship of assoc. prof. Žiga Jakopin, Ph. D.. His field of research are novel NOD2 agonists and dual NOD2/TLR7 agonists as potential adjuvants for vaccines. |