EDUCATION
2016 – University Expert in Project Management, La Salle, Ramon y Llull University, Barcelona, Spain
2007 – PhD in Molecular Biology, University of Heidelberg, Germany
2003 – Degree in Molecular Biology, University of Zagreb, Croatia
WORK EXPERIENCE
2017 – current: Project Manager at Cancer Prevention and Control Program at Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO), Barcelona, Spain.
2013 – 2017: Postdoctoral researcher at Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), CIBBIM-Nanomedicine, Barcelona, Spain
2007 – 2012: Postdoctoral researcher at Centre of Regenerative Medicine Barcelona CMR[B], Spain
2007: visiting researcher (PhD student) at European Molecular Biology Laboratories (EMBL)
2003 – 2007: PhD student at German Centre for Cancer Research (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
OTHER
05/2017 – “Claus per bioemprendre” course about bioentrepreneurship, organized by Bosch i Gimpera, Barcelona
01/2013 – 03/2013 Coursera – online course “Data Analysis” from Johns Hopkins University (online)
09/2012 – 10/2012 Coursera –online course “Computing for Data Analysis” using R language, from Johns Hopkins University (online)
11/2010 and 2/2011 – “Leading for Success in Science” course on team leadership in science, organized by HFP consulting in Barcelona, Spain
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Rodrigues P, Macaya I, Bazzocco S, Mazzolini R, Andretta E, Dopeso H, Mateo-Lozano S, Bilić J, Cartón-García F, Nieto R, Suárez-López L, Afonso E, Landolfi S, Hernandez-Losa J, Kobayashi K, Cajal SR, Tabernero J, Tebbutt NC, Mariadason JM, Schwartz S Jr, Arango D. 2014. RHOA inactivation enhances Wnt signalling and promotes colorectal cancer. Nature Communications 5:5458
- Vitaloni M, Pulecio J, Bilic J, Kuebler B, Laricchia-Robbio L, Izpisua Belmonte JC. 2014. MicroRNAs contribute to induced pluripotent stem cell somatic donor memory. J Biol Chem. 289(4):2084-98
- Bilic J, Izpisúa Belmonte JC, 2012. Concise review: Induced pluripotent stem cells versus embryonic stem cells: close enough or yet too far apart? Stem Cells 30(1): 33-41.
- Bilić J, Huang Y-L, Davidson G, Zimmermann T, Cruciat MC, Bienz M, Niehrs C, 2007. Wnt induces LRP-signalosomes and promotes Dishevelled-dependent LRP6 phosphorylation. Science 316: 1619-22
- Davidson G, Wu W, Shen J, Bilić J, Fenger U, Stannek P, Glinka A and Niehrs C, 2005. Casein kinase 1 gamma couples Wnt receptor activation to cytoplasmic signal transduction. Nature 438: 867-72