Mujagic Hamza, April, 2008.HM

Career synopsis

I started my professional career in 1970 as a Postgraduate assistant in the Institute of Natural Sciences “Rudjer Boskovic” at the University in Zagreb, Croatia. I was the first candidate selected by the Institute to be educated in translational research. I worked in the laboratory of tumor immunology and at the University hospital Merkur. My primary responsibility was to organize and conduct the first clinical trial in Europe of specific immunotherapy in ovarian cancer patients. I prepared a vaccine consisting of irradiated ovarian cancer cells mixed with Freund’s adjuvant and injected patients with the vaccine subcutaneously three times at weekly intervals. I treated 35 patients and observed no significant clinical results.