Asst. Prof. Petar Ozretić, PhD, is a senior research associate and head of the Laboratory for Hereditary Cancer at the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI), Zagreb, Croatia. He obtained Diploma degree in Molecular Biology at the Faculty of Science, Zagreb (2005) and PhD at the Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Doctoral Studies in Molecular Biosciences, Osijek (2013). From 2006, he has been working at the RBI: 2006/07 as
professional associate, 2007/13 assistant/PhD student, 2013/17 senior assistant/postdoc, 2017/23 research associate, and from 2023 as a senior research associate. From June 2019, he is a head of laboratory. From 2018, he is an assistant professor (title) at the Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek. His two main research topics are genetics of hereditary breast/ovarian cancer syndrome (BRCA1&2 genes) and epi/genetic dysregulation of the Hedgehog-GLI signaling pathway in various tumors such as ovarian, breast, prostate, melanoma, head and neck, etc. He is one of the cofounders and, from 2009, secretary of the Croatian Association for Cancer Research (HDIR)
