Ljubo Barbić

Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases with Clinic, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Prof Ljubo Barbić is a full professor at the Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases with Clinic, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb. He graduated from the same institution in 1999 and received his PhD in 2007 on the molecular epidemiology of equine influenza.

His research interests include viral diseases with a particular focus on the epidemiology of zoonotic arboviruses and emerging zoonoses. Prof Barbić has established and coordinated the surveillance of emerging flaviviruses in Croatia for over ten years. As a project leader or researcher, he has participated in three international and more than ten national scientific projects. Most of his scientific work consists of multidisciplinary research on zoonoses in close collaboration with experts in human medicine within the One Health approach. He has published more than 150 scientific and professional papers.

He is currently the head of the National Reference Laboratory for Equine Viral Diseases and was the head of the Virology unit at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Zagreb for over ten years. He is a full member of the Croatian Academy of Medical Sciences and an associate member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

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