Academician, prof. Mirsada Hukić, MD

Academician, specialist in microbiology and member of the European Academy

Academician, prof.dr. Mirsada Hukić, born in Tuzla, specialist in microbiology and member of the European Academy of Sciences. In 1974 she graduated from the Medical Faculty of the University of Sarajevo. She specialized in medical microbiology at the Medical Faculty of the University of Sarajevo in 1981. In 1984, she obtained a master’s degree in medical sciences at the Medical Faculty of the University of Tuzla, and in 1992 she obtained the title of doctor of medical sciences at the same faculty. In her rich work experience, she went from a general practitioner in the ’70s, through the head of the Department of Parasitology and Intestinal Infection at the University Clinical Center Tuzla, head of the Department of Microbiology in the’ 90s in Tuzla, and in 2003 head of the Institute of Microbiology, immunology and parasitology of the Clinical Center of the University of Sarajevo. Since 2003, she has been a full member of the European Academy of Sciences (EAS), in the field of biomedicine, and since 2012 a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of BiH. She has dedicated years of professional training in the field of immunology, bacteriology, virology, in Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Serbia and Croatia. She is a member of numerous scientific and professional organizations and associations in the country and the world, we will single out: a representative of BiH within the World Health Network. Professor Hukić is the winner of the largest scientific award in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the State Award for Science for achievements in the field of science at the international level, which was awarded by the Ministry of Civil Affairs of BiH for the first time. She has published over 300 scientific and professional papers, connected microbiologists of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the world and made a huge contribution to the study of hantavirus.