Curriculum Vitae
Prof. Dr. Petar M. MITRASINOVIC
Distinguished President
Head of Biophysical & Chemical Research
Belgrade Institute of Science and Technology
Belgrade, Serbia
E-mail: pmitrasinovic.ist-belgrade.edu.rs@tech-center.com
Date of Birth: November 15, 1968
EDUCATION
Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, U.S., 09/97-05/02
Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry. Cumulative G.P.A.: 3.86/4.00
University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia, 10/93-06/95
Magister in Materials Science & Nanotechnology. Cumulative G.P.A.: 4.00/4.00
University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia, 10/88-07/93
B.Sc., Master in Control Engineering. Cumulative G.P.A.: 3.90/4.00
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
Distinguished President: Belgrade Institute of Science and Technology, Belgrade, Serbia, 01/16-
Principal Scientific Advisor & Affiliate Professor: Perth Science and Technology Consortium, Perth, Australia, 04/12-04/16
Executive Director: Belgrade Institute of Science and Technology, Belgrade, Serbia, 07/08-12/15
Visiting Professor: Department of Biotechnology & Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India, 06/10-08/13
Professor & Head of Biophysical & Chemical Research: Belgrade Institute of Science and Technology, Belgrade, Serbia, 07/08-
Visiting Professor: Department of Material Science and Chemistry, Wakayama University, Wakayama, Japan, 11/10-01/12
Invited Professor: Department of Chemistry, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, 12/11
Invited Professor: Department of Chemistry, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 11/11
Invited Professor: Department of Chemistry, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, 11/11
Invited Professor: Institute of Biomaterials and Bioengineering, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan, 11/11
Guest Lecturer: Research Center for Allergy and Immunology, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Yokohama City, Kanagawa, Japan, 11/11
Visiting Professor: Department of Life Sciences, University of Banja Luka, Republic of Srpska, Bosnia, 10/07-
Associate Professor of Biophysics: Center for Multidisciplinary Studies, University of Belgrade, Serbia, 04/06-06/08
Associate Research Professor: Department of Information Technologies, Center for Multidisciplinary Studies, University of Belgrade, Serbia, 04/06-06/08
IBM Research Scientist: RNA Maturation and Molecular Enzymology Laboratory, Henri Poincare University, Nancy, France, 01/05-12/05
Izaak Walton Killam Fellow: Department of Chemistry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, 01/03-12/04
European Union Research Scientist: Laboratory for Chemistry of Novel Materials, Center for Research on Molecular Electronics and Photonics, University of Mons-Hainaut, Mons, Belgium, 06/02-12/02
Grader: Department of Chemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, U.S., 08/01-12/01
Lecturer: Department of Chemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, U.S., 08/98-05/99
Tutor: Department of Chemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, U.S., 08/98-05/99
Teaching Assistant: Department of Chemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, U.S., 05/99-05/02, 08/97-08/98
Research Fellow: Department of Chemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, U.S., 05/97-05/02
Research Fellow: Molecular Machines Research Center, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia, 07/95-04/97
Teaching Assistant: Department of Control Engineering, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia, 01/94-12/95
Graduate Research Assistant: Molecular Machines Research Center, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia, 08/93-06/95
Undergraduate Research: Department of Control Engineering, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia, 08/92-07/93. Sumerbank Holding A. S., Izmir, Turkey, 05/91-09/91
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
European Society of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering
International Association of Biomedical Sciences
American Chemical Society
Canadian Society for Chemistry
Foresight Institute for Molecular Nanotechnology, U.S.A.
PROFESSIONAL OFFICES
Guest Editor of Current Bioinformatics, 2011-12
Guest Editor of Current Organic Chemistry, 2009-10
Guest Editor of Nova Science Publishers Inc., 2008-9
Academic Editor of British Journal of Pharmaceutical Research, 2013-17
Editorial Advisory Board Member of Current Radiopharmaceuticals, 2007-18
Editorial Advisory Board Member of Drug Designing: Open Access, 2011-18
Editorial Board Member of Biomedical Science and Engineering, 2013-
Editorial Board Member of Research & Reviews in BioSciences, 2007-
Editorial Board Member of Research & Reviews in ElectroChemistry, 2008-
Technical Program Committee Member of the 2013 World Congress on Engineering & Technology (CET-2013)
Technical Program Committee Member of the 2013 Conference on Biophysics & Biochemistry (BPBC-2013)
Technical Program Committee Member of the 2013 Symposium on Materials and Chemical Engineering (MCE-2013)
Technical Program Committee Member of the 2013 Spring World Congress on Engineering & Technology (SCET-2013)
Technical Program Committee Member of the 2012 Spring World Congress on Engineering & Technology (SCET-2012)
Scientific Advisory Board Member of the Integrative Biology Summit 2012
Organizing Committee Member of the International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Aided Drug Design & QSAR (CADD-2012)
Technical Program Committee Member of the 2011 World Congress on Engineering & Technology (CET-2011)
Organizing Committee Member of the 2011 International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology (BEB-2011)
Organizing Committee Member of the 2011 International Conference on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CBB-2011)
Scientific Advisory Board Member of the BITs 2nd World Congress of Industrial Biotechnology (IBIO-2009)
REVIEWER
Nature
Journal of the American Chemical Society
Chemical Communications
Drug Discovery Today
Current Medicinal Chemistry
Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Patents
Current Organic Chemistry
Current Bioinformatics
BMC Structural Biology
Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry
Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling
Journal of Physical Chemistry A
Journal of Physical Chemistry B
Journal of Physical Chemistry
Journal of Chemical Physics
Journal of Mass Spectrometry
Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics
Annals of Biomedical Engineering
International Journal of Biomedical Science
Current Drug Targets
Mini-Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry
Acta Chimica Slovenica
Drug Design, Development and Therapy
The Medical Science Monitor
Journal of Enzyme Inhibition and Medicinal Chemistry
Computers in Biology and Medicine
Current Radiopharmaceuticals
Research and Reports in Medicinal Chemistry
International Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
Advances in Physical Chemistry
Advances and Applications in Bioinformatics and Chemistry
Reports in Theoretical Chemistry
The International Journal of Radiation Biology
Journal of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Research
Journal of Bioinformatics and Sequence Analysis
R&D Management
IEEE Proceedings
International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Proceedings
Int. Multi-Conf. Eng. Technological Innovation (IMETI) Proceedings
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
European Union Framework Programme, COST
Czech Science Foundation, GACR
National Science Center, Poland
AWARDS AND HONOURS
Applied Academic Research Carrier Award, Perth Sci & Tech Consortium, Perth, Australia, 2012-16
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Professorship, Japan, 2011-12
Plenary Speaker, The 38th Symposium on Main Group Element Chemistry, Kanazawa, Japan, 2011
Indian National Science Academy Professorship, India, 2009-12
The 2012 Curr. Bioinfo. (7:490-504) article was selected by the World Biomedical Frontiers service due to its innovation and potential for significant impact.
Peer-elected Expert, European Science Foundation, Brussels, Belgium, 2012
The Global Medical Discovery service identified the 2011 Med. Chem. article as being of special interest to the drug development sector.
Best Poster Award, International Conference on Frontiers in Biological Sciences, NIT Rourkela, India, 2010
Session Chair, BITs 1st World Congress of Industrial Biotechnology, China, 2008
Peer-elected Full Member of the European Society of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering (MESCMSE), 2005
Faculty of Graduate Studies Research Grant, Dalhousie University, Canada, 2003-4
Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Award, Dalhousie University, Canada, 2003-4
European Union SANEME Fellowship, Belgium, 2002
Florida State University Graduate Fellowship, U.S., 1997-2002
Congress of Graduate Students Research Grant, Florida State University, 2001
Yugoslavian National Science Foundation Fellowship, 1993-6
International Association for the Exchange of Students (IAES) Fellowship, 1991
Yugoslavian Foundation for Young Scientists Fellowship, 1988-93
Diploma Vuk Karadzic for Top G.P.A. in High School Generation, YU, 1987
Diploma Mihailo Petrovic Alas for Physics and Mathematics, YU, 1987
Diploma Vuk Karadzic for Top G.P.A. in Primary School Generation, YU, 1983
SKILLS
Computational Methods: Amber, Tinker, ArgusLab, Mc-sym, Delphi, Apbs, Charmm, Q-md, Gromax, Uhbd, Primos, Amigos, SwissPdbViewer, RnaDraw, Mmtsb, Insight II, Entangle, Pymol, Vmd, Ab initio, DFT, MM/MD/QMM, Fortran, C, C++, Gaussian, Gamess, Aimpac, HyperChem, SciAn, Molden, MatLab, Maple, SigmaPlot, GnuPlot, Spss, HPLC (Beckman Instruments, Inc.), NMR (Varian Inova 300 MHz), Chem Office, Rasmol, Spartan, Cellware, Vis5D, Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Data Acquisition Techniques, MathCad, Gepasi, Nast/C2A, Dock, FoldX, MOI, Chimera.
Computer Systems and Administration: AIX/SGI Unix, PC (Windows, NT, Linux).
Experimental Techniques: Spectroscopy (NMR, UV, IR, Flame, Mass, RS), HPLC (Beckman Instruments, Inc.), GC, Measuring Techniques, STM, AFM, CVD.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Biophysical Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Structural Biology, Computational Chemistry, Research and Development (R&D) Project Management
TEACHING INTERESTS
Biophysics, Medicinal Chemistry, Drug Design, Molecular Modeling, Bioinformatics, Conformational Analysis, Polymer Science, Physical Chemistry, Computational/Theoretical Chemistry, Quantum Chemistry, Thermodynamics, Statistical Mechanics, Bioorganic Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Instrumental Methods, General Chemistry, Systems Biology, Computational Biology, Biotechnology, Biomedical Engineering
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL LISTINGS
Who s Who in the World, Marquis Who s Who, New Providence, NJ, U.S., 2009
Who s Who in America, Marquis Who s Who, NJ, U.S., 2009
Who s Who in Science and Engineering, Marquis Who s Who, NJ, U.S., 2008
Who s Who of Emerging Leaders, Marquis Who s Who, NJ, U.S., 2007
OTHER EXPERIENCE
Private Tutor: Department of Chemistry, Florida State University, U.S., 05/97-06/02.
Judge: Departmental Science Fairs, Florida State University, U.S., 01/99-08/01.
Languages: English, French, Serbian.
PUBLICATION RECORD
More than 50 original scientific articles and 15 invited review articles as single/leading author in high-ranking international journals.
6 book chapters
9 books
Numerous plenary/invited lectures and seminars at international meetings, universities and institutes worldwide
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
P. M. Mitrasinovic. On the recognition of Yersinia protein tyrosine phosphatase by carboxylic acid derivatives, Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, 41, 1879-1894 (2023).
P. M. Mitrasinovic. On the inhibition of cytochrome P450 3A4 by structurally diversified flavonoids, Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, 40, 9713-9723 (2022).
P. M. Mitrasinovic. Quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics study on caspase-2 recognition by peptide inhibitors, Acta Chimica Slovenica, 67, 876-884 (2020).
P. M. Mitrasinovic. Prediction of hit-to-lead ligand molecule interaction with G-quadruplex DNA from c-Myc oncogene promoter region, Acta Chimica Slovenica, 67, 386-395 (2020).
P. M. Mitrasinovic. Small-molecule interaction with G-quadruplex DNA: context of anti-cancer drug design, Croatica Chemica Acta, 92, 43-57 (2019).
P. M. Mitrasinovic. Structural insights into the binding of small ligand molecules to a G-quadruplex DNA located in the HIV-1 promoter, Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, 36, 2292-2302 (2018).
P. M. Mitrasinovic. Research and development pathway toward nanotechnology, Belgrade Institute of Science and Technology, 2016, 45 pages, ISBN: 978-86-88225-02-1.
P. M. Mitrasinovic. Sequence-dependent binding of flavonoids to duplex DNA, Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 55, 421-433 (2015).
P. M. Mitrasinovic. Inhibitory activity against epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) based on single point mutations of active site residues, Medicinal Chemistry, 10, 252-270 (2014).
P. M. Mitrasinovic. Structural elucidation of unique inhibitory activities of two thiazolo[4,5-d]pyrimidines against epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR): implications for successful drug design, Medicinal Chemistry, 10, 46-58 (2014).
P. M. Mitrasinovic. Progress in structure-based design of EGFR inhibitors, Current Drug Targets, 14, 817-829 (2013).
P. M. Mitrasinovic,* P. T. Palakshan, S. Tripathi, A. N. Tripathi. On the affinity and specificity of quercetin for DNA, Medicinal Chemistry, 9, 193-202 (2013).
B. V. Babu, N. K. Konduru, W. Nakanishi, S. Hayashi, N. Ahmed, P. M. Mitrasinovic*. Experimental and theoretical advances in functional understanding of flavonoids as anti-tumor agents, Anti-Cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry, 13, 307-332 (2013).
P. M. Mitrasinovic. Towards an experimental and systems biology framework for cancer cell therapeutics, Current Bioinformatics, 7, 490-504 (2012).
P. M. Mitrasinovic. Recent developments and prospects for influenza M2 ion channel inhibitors that circumvent amantadine resistance, Current Bioinformatics, 7, 466-473, (2012).
P. M. Mitrasinovic. Advances in boron-based supramolecular architecture, Current Organic Synthesis, 9, 233-246 (2012).
P. M. Mitrasinovic,* J. S. Tomar, M. S. Nair, R. Barthwal. Modeling of HIV-1 TAR RNA-ligand complexes, Medicinal Chemistry, 7, 301-308 (2011).
P. M. Mitrasinovic. Advances in the structure-based design of the H5N1 influenza A neuraminidase inhibitors, Current Drug Targets, 11, 315-326 (2010).
P. M. Mitrasinovic. Electronic processes at organic/metal interfaces: Recent progress and pitfalls, Current Organic Chemistry, 14, 198-211 (2010).
P. M. Mitrasinovic. On the structure-based design of novel inhibitors of H5N1 influenza A virus neuraminidase (NA), Biophysical Chemistry, 140, 35-38 (2009).
P. M. Mitrasinovic. Another look at organic/metal interfaces: Correlation with experiment, Molecular Simulation, vol. 34, pp. 89-95, 2008.
P. M. Mitrasinovic. Global view of the fight against influenza, Nova Science Publishers, Inc.: New York, 2009, 420 pages, ISBN: 978-1-60741-952-5. Dedicated to Prof. Dr. William Graeme Laver (1929-2008).
A. Niciforovic, J. Djordjevic, M. Adzic, V. Vucic, P. M. Mitrasinovic*, M. B. Radojcic*. Experimental and systems biology studies of the molecular basis for the radioresistance of prostate carcinoma cells, Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 36, 831-838 (2008).
P. M. Mitrasinovic. On the structural features of hairpin triloops in rRNA: From nucleotide to global conformational change upon ligand binding, Journal of Structural Biology, 153, 207-222 (2006).
P. M. Mitrasinovic. Cross-linking between thymine and indolyl radical: Possible mechanisms for cross-linking of DNA and tryptophan-containing peptides, Bioconjugate Chemistry, 16, 588-597 (2005).
P. M. Mitrasinovic. Invariant description of the behavior of electrons in donor-acceptor molecules, Chemical Physics Letters, 392, 419-427 (2004).
P. M. Mitrasinovic. Acrylonitrile (AN)/Cu9(100) interfaces: electron distribution and nature of bonded interactions, Canadian Journal of Chemistry, 81, 542-554 (2003). Special Issue: In Honour of Professor Don Arnold.
P. M. Mitrasinovic. Sharing analysis of the behavior of electrons in some simple ylides, Chemical Physics, 286, 1-13 (2003).
P. M. Mitrasinovic. Electron delocalization in atomic and molecular systems, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 106, 11262-11270 (2002).
P. M. Mitrasinovic. Qualitative characterization of the P-C bonds in ylides of phosphorus, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 106, 7026-7033 (2002).
P. M. Mitrasinovic. Quantitative characterization of the P-C bonds in ylides of phosphorus, Journal of Computational Chemistry, 22, 1387-1395 (2001). Special Issue: In Honour of Professor Paul von R. Schleyer.