Research associate Urška Dragin Jerman, PhD

Research inetrests

• mechanisms of multifocal bladder tumor formation with emphasis on interactions between normal and cancer urothelial cells

• the effect of human amniotic membrane preparations on urothelial cell differentiation

• interactions between epithelial and mesenchymal cells

• establishment of biomimetic epithelial in vitro models

Methodological expertise​

• cell culture (establishment of normal and cancer models in vitro)

• tissue engineering (establishment of urothelial tissue equivalents in vitro)

• light microscopy (bright-filed, phase-contrast, fluorescence and confocal microscopy)

• electron microscopy (transmission and scanning electron microscopy)

• immunolabeling

• transepithelial resistance and permeability analysis

• zymography

• western blot