Associate Professor Vesna Ćorić, MD was born in Belgrade in 1985, where she completed her elementary and high school education with honors. In 2004, she started her studies at Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade. She received the Scholarship from Ministry of Education of Serbia (2005-2010) and Scholarship Endowment of Dragoljub Marinkovic, managed by the University of Belgrade (2008-2010).

In 2007, Vesna Ćorić joined the research group headed by Professor dr Tatjana Simić, Vice Dean for Research at Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade. She took a special interest in studying the potential role of glutathione S-transferase polymorphisms in patients with renal cell carcinoma. She presented the results of her experimental work at numerous foreign and domestic conferences and won 3 prizes for best oral presentations.

She graduated from the School of Medicine University of Belgrade in 2010, with average grade 9.31/10.00. In 2010/2011, Vesna Ćorić enrolled in her PhD studies at the School of Medicine, University of Belgrade – Molecular Medicine module.

In 2011, she started working at the Institute of Medical and Clinical Biochemistry as a Research Trainee, on project No. 175052 entitled “The role of glutathione S-transferase polymorphisms in susceptibility to disease development”, financed by the Serbian Ministry of Education and Science. In 2012, she became a Teaching Associate in the field of Medical Biochemistry. During the school year 2013/2014, Vesna Ćorić started her residency in Laboratory Medicine and in September 2014 she was promoted to a Teaching Assistant. She participated in numerous domestic and foreign conferences. Dr Ćorić attended the „SFRR-IUBMB Advanced School 2012“ summer school in Spetses (Greece), where she won the prize for best poster presentation. In 2013 she spent 3 months in the ERAWEB (Erasmus Mundus – Western Balkans) academic exchange program in Torino (Italy) at the Medical Faculty, University of Torino, where she worked on a project entitled „Optimization of oncological therapy: new drugs against Multidrug Resistance“, headed by Professor dr Chiara Riganti. From 2014-2016 Dr Ćorić acted as a PhD representative within the Executive board of ORPHEUS (Organization of PhD education in Biomedicine and Health Sciences in the European System) and during that time she organized several workshops on PhD education. She participated in establishing the first PhD candidates’ association at the School of Medicine, University of Belgrade.

In 2017, Dr Vesna Ćorić defended her PhD Thesis in Molecular Medicine. The following year, Dr Ćorić completed her residency in Laboratory Medicine.

In 2019, she was promoted to Assistant Professor in the field of Medical and clinical Biochemistry and became a Research Associate at Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade. She attended two short term scientific missions (COST actions CA21165 and CA16113) at Biomedical Research Foundation Academy Of Athens, in 2021 and 2023. In 2022, Dr Coric completed her sub- specialization in Laboratory Diagnostic in Oncology. In 2024, Dr Ćorić was promoted to Senior Research Associate at Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade.

In 2025, she was promoted to Associate Professor in the field of Medical and clinical Biochemistry. Dr Coric teaches at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade (Serbia) and the Faculty of Medicine, University of Banja Luka (Republic of Srpska).

Dr Coric is/was engaged at the following projects:

1. 4. ERASMUS+ project: „Development and implementation of metacognitive problem-based modules in blended learning courses in medical sciences (ProBLeMS), No.101082790 (2023-)

2.COVID-19 related project “AtioxIdentification” (supported by Science Fund of Republic of Serbia) (ended in 2022)

3. “CliniMARK: good biomarker practice to increase the number of clinically validated biomarkers” (ended in 2021)

4. project entitled ‘The role of glutathione S-transferase in susceptibility to disease (Project number 175052, supported by the Ministry of education and science, Serbia). (ended in 2020)


She is a member Associate editor board in Frontiers in Oncology, Cancer Genetics as well as in Medical Youth Journal.