HISTORY OF OUR INSTITUTE
At the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Ljubljana,
the field of cell biology has been researched for 100 years.
The subject of General Biology at the Faculty of Medicine in Ljubljana was first introduced in 1920 by biologist Dr Pavel Grošelj. His successor Dr Hubert Pehani turned the attention of courses at the Biological Institute towards fields important for medicine. He was particularly interested in human genetics (continued by Dr Primož Schauer), which was later extended to include cellular and molecular biology. The institute’s interests were acknowledged in 1970 when it was renamed the Institute for Human Biology and made into a university department of the Faculty of Medicine. Due to further specialisation, it was again renamed in 1991 when it became known as the Institute of Cell Biology.
Dr Hubert Pehani
Dr Pavel Grošelj
Dr Nada Pipan
Since 1965, the institute, led by Professor Nada Pipan, focused on biomedical electron microscopy and the ultrastructure of multiple cell types, accompanied by extensive research. It became well recognised not only as an educational and development centre but also as a base for ultrastructural analysis, essential for research and diagnostic purposes.
Over the last three decades, exceptional scientific progress has broadened the knowledge of the detailed structure and function of different cell types, enabling differentiation between normal, cancerous or stem cells, and deepening the understanding of functional mechanisms in organs and tissues on a cellular and molecular level. This scientific development has also been supported by important discoveries of researchers at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Ljubljana. Today, the Institute of Cell Biology is actively engaged in international collaboration and ranks among the world‘s leading centres in its field.
The concepts of cell biology are passed on to numerous undergraduate and doctoral students at the University of Ljubljana.
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