Role
Dr Rajic is a Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology and Course Leader for MSc Pharmacology, January start. She is the module leader for Toxicology (level 6) and Neurophysiology (level 7) modules and teaches on several other modules within undergraduate and postgraduate Bioscience courses.
She is also Deputy UG and PG Placement manager.
Career overview
Dr Aida Rajic joined NTU in April 2022. She has over 12 years of experience in academic leadership roles, including course development and accreditations by professional bodies such as the RSB and IBMS. She holds a PhD in Developmental Neurobiology from King’s College, London where she investigated the role of retinoic acid in CNS development. After finishing her PhD, Dr. Rajic spent few months as a Visiting Fellow at Telethon Institute for Genetics and Medicine in Naples, Italy, researching the role of retinoic acid in development of the eye. Following this, she worked as a research associate at Cambridge University where she researched the role that neural stem cells play both in development and regeneration of the CNS.
Research areas
Dr Rajic's main research interests can be divided into two distinct areas: Development and Regeneration of the CNS, and nutraceuticals as potential novel, less toxic and more efficient cancer therapy. She has an ongoing research collaboration with King’s College, London studying transient hypothyroidism as a model for Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD), assessing neuroanatomical differences using micro-CT scanning and molecular differences in ASD brains versus normal brains.
External activity
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Fellow of the Institute of Biomedical Science
Member of the Royal Society of Biology
Member of the British Pharmacological Society
Member of the British Society for Developmental Biology
Publications
- Bunn, C., Al-Naimi, S., Rajic, A. and Ibrahim, F.; (2022) Obesity as a risk factor for the admission of COVID-19 patients into ICU: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, 81 (OCE1), E23.
- Nejad, L., Al-Naimi, S., Rajic, A. and Ibrahim, F.; (2022) Probiotics as an additional therapeutic approach in the management of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, 81 (OCE1), E13.
- Pitsiani, M., Wilson, L. J., Rajic, A., Bell, D., Fernandes, C., Wingate, R. J.; Transient early gestational antithyroid treatment in mice results in behavioural deficits in adult offspring. Program No. 283.09/B22. 2017 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience, 2017. Online.
- Masieri F.F., Ghisellini A., Rajic A. , Setti S. , Cadossi R.;(2015) An osteogenic differentiation model of fibroblast-like synoviocytes: is there a role for pulsed electromagnetic fields? Regenerative Medicine 10, 7S, 60.
- Halilagic A, Ribes V, Ghyselinck, N.B., Zile, M.H., Dollé, P., Studer,M. Retinoids control anterior and dorsal properties in the developing forebrain. Dev. Biol. (2007) PMID: 17184764.
- Garcion E, Halilagic A, Faissner A and ffrench-Constant C. Generation of an environmental niche for neural stem cell development by the extracellular matrix molecule tenascin C. Development (2004) PMID: 15226258.
- Aida Halilagic, Maija H. Zile and Michèle Studer. A novel role for retinoids in patterning the avian forebrain during presomite stage. Development. (2003) PMID: 12668619.