Robert Zorec#
Membership Number: | 2466 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
Elected: | 2007 |
Main Country of Residence: | SLOVENIA |
Homepage(s): | http://www.celica.si |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2006 - present CEO, Celica Biomedical Center
- 2001 Programme Director at Celica Biomedical Center
- 1998 Head of Carl Zeiss Reference Center for Confocal Microscopy
- 1995 Full Professor of Pathological Physiology, University of Ljubljana
- 1991 Head Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology-Center, Molecular Cell Physiology, University of Ljubljana
- 1986 Ph.D. in Neurophysiology, University of Ljubljana
Fields of Scholarship
- Cell physiology
- Mechanisms of exocytosis
- Membrane capacitance
- Measurements
- Electrophysiology
- Optophysiology pituitary cells
- Astrocyte biology
- Vesicle traffic
- Glial cells
- Pathophysiology and physiology at cellular level
- Advanced cell therapies
Honours and Awards
- 1981 "France Prešeren" Award for Student Research Projects
- 1991 "B. Kidrič" Award for Scientific Achievemts
- 1997 The Republic of Slovenia Prize for Science Neuroendocrinology)
- 2001 Associated Member of The Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Section Natural Sciences
- 2007 Member of The Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Section Natural Sciences
- 2007 Member of Academia Europaea, Section Physiology and Medicine
- 2009 Member of the Committee for Advanced Therapies at the European Medicine's Agency (London)