Cell & Stem Cell Research

Željka Večerić-Haler works as a Medical Doctor, specialist of Nephrology at Nephrology department, University Medical Centre, Ljubljana. As a Nephrologist, she is faced with numerous challenges from the field of Nephrology on daily basis and is specially oriented in the fields of kidney transplantation, regenerative medicine and substitutive therapies of acute and end stage kidney failure. She has completed her PhD from University of Ljubljana Faculty of Medicine in 2016 and her thesis is revealing impact of immunological environment on the behavior and functions of transplanted stem cells. Her interests of research involve studies on stem cell transplantation for regeneration of kidney injury and immune tolerance in kidney transplantation.