Danica Vojisavljevic

Dr Danica Vojisavljevic (also known as Dana), currently lectures in Physiology in the College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences. She completed her PhD at the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University Australia, in 2017. The focus of her PhD was looking at the effects of premature birth and fetal growth restriction on kidney development and function in the neonate. To achieve this, Dana’s research projects included both the use of animal models (sheep; in collaboration with the Ritchie Centre, Monash University, Australia and The University of UTAH) and clinical studies (undertaken at Monash Medical Centre, Australia and Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, Australia) to observe changes in kidney development and function in early life in response to intra-uterine and extra-uterine environments.

More recently, Dana has expanded her clinical research with a particular focus on the prevention and diagnosis of neonatal acute kidney injury. She is part of the Perinatal Neonatal Research Group at Townsville University Hospital and through this strong collaboration her current projects are dedicated to solving the conundrum of acute kidney injury in neonates and children up to 2 years of age; with a particular focus on development and translation of novel biomarkers to improve early detection of kidney injury. 

Dana has a keen research interest in understanding the relationships between kidney health and preterm birth, fetal growth restriction and maternal health.