Prof. dr. Alojz Ihan, dr. med.

Strokovna dejavnost

• vodja Laboratorija za celično imunologijo (CEL) in oddelka za imunologijo
• predstojnik Katedre za mikrobiologijo in imunologijo Medicinske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani
• vodja Obrata za proizvodnjo celic CAR T
• član strokovnega kolegija Inštituta
• glavni urednik Založbe UL MF
• glavni urednik revije ISIS, Zdravniška zbornica Slovenije
• član slovenske skupine za primarne imunske pomanjkljivosti
• član in podpredsednik Posvetovalne skupine za cepljenje (NITAG- National Immunization Technical Advisory Group), Nacionalni inštitut za javno zdravje
• član Evropske skupine za cepljenje odraslih (Adult Immunization Board)

Professional activities

• Head of the Cellular Immunology Laboratory (CEL) and the Department of Immunology
• Head of the Academic Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana
• Head of the CAR-T Production Department, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana
• Member of the Advisory Board of the Institute of Microbiology and Immunology
• Editor-in-chief of the Publishing Department of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana
• Editor-in-chief of ISIS journal, The Medical Chamber of Slovenia
• Member of the Slovenian Group for Primary Immunodeficiencies
• Member and deputy chairman of the National advisory committee on immunization (NITAG- National Immunization Technical Advisory Group), National Institute of Public Health
• Member of the European Adult Immunization Board Group (AIB)

 

Pedagoška dejavnost

• učitelj, predstojnik Katedre za mikrobiologijo in imunologijo
• predavatelj imunoloških vsebin na dodiplomskih in podiplomskih predmetih Medicinske fakultete, Biotehniške fakultete, Fakultete za farmacijo in Fakultete za kemijo in kemijsko tehnologijo

Teaching

• Teacher, Head of the Academic Department of Microbiology and Immunology
• Lecturer in immunology in undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the Faculty of Medicine, the Biotechnical Faculty, the Faculty of Pharmacy and Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology

Raziskovalna dejavnost

• šifra raziskovalca/researcher code: 10337

 

Bibliografija

• COBISS
• ORCID
• PubMed

Kratek življenjepis

Prof. dr. sc. Alojz Ihan, dr. med., je zdravnik, specialist klinične mikrobiologije, redni profesor mikrobiologije in imunologije na Medicinski fakulteti Univerze v Ljubljani. Je predstojnik Katedre za mikrobiologijo in imunologijo, ki organizira in izvaja pouk za več kot 30 študijskih predmetov na Medicinski fakulteti, Biotehniški fakulteti, Fakulteti za farmacijo in Fakulteti za kemijo in kemijsko tehnologijo Univerze v Ljubljani ter na podiplomskem pouku Biomedicina. Prof. dr. Ihan je tudi vodja Oddelka za imunologijo in vodja Obrata za proizvodnjo celic CAR T, na Inštitutu za mikrobiologijo in imunologijo, ki je osrednja slovenska diagnostična, znanstvena in pedagoška ustanova s področja mikrobiologije in imunologije.

Leta 1987 je diplomiral na Medicinski fakulteti v Ljubljani. Leta 1988 je začel delati na Inštitutu za mikrobiologijo Medicinske fakultete v Ljubljani. Leta 1991 in 1992 je delal na Nacionalnem inštitutu za raziskavo raka v Genovi (INRC). Naziv doktor medicinskih znanosti je pridobil leta 1993 z disertacijo »Osamitev in opredelitev membranskih proteinov, ki opredeljujejo aloreaktivnost naravnih celic ubijalk pri človeku«. Leta 1994 je raziskovalno gostoval na Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute v Bethesdi, ZDA. Od leta 1997 je specialist klinične mikrobiologije. V naziv redni profesor za predmet Mikrobiologija in imunologija na Medicinski fakulteti v Ljubljani je bil izvoljen leta 2006.

Strokovno in raziskovalno se ukvarja predvsem z diagnostiko prirojenih okvar imunskega sistema, ki jo Oddelek za imunologijo opravlja v sodelovanju s Pediatrično kliniko UKC Ljubljana. Drugo področje delovanja je priprava gensko spremenjenih limfocitov T (CAR-T) za namen protitumorske terapije, ki poteka v sodelovanju s Kliničnim oddelkom za hematologijo UKC Ljubljana.

Prof. dr. Ihan je glavni mentor za specializacijo iz klinične mikrobiologije in imunologije (Zdravniška zbornica Slovenije), član komisije za strokovni nadzor za področje klinične mikrobiologije in imunologije (Zdravniška zbornica Slovenije), podpredsednik razširjenega strokovnega kolegija za mikrobiologijo in imunologijo (RSK) Ministrstva za zdravje RS, ki je glavni strokovni organ v RS za področje mikrobiologije in imunologije. Deluje tudi kot član in podpredsednik Posvetovalne skupine za cepljenje (NITAG- National Immunization Technical Advisory Group) pri Nacionalnem inštitutu za javno zdravje in kot ekspert Evropske skupine za cepljenje odraslih (AIB – Adult Immunisation Board). Je tudi glavni urednik Založbe Medicinske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (Založba UL MF) in zdravniške revije ISIS.

Bibliografija prof. dr. Ihana obsega več kot 1500 enot (Cobiss), od tega nad 120 člankov v mednarodnih znanstvenih revijah, ki jih citira Science Citation Index (SCI), in 51 knjig, med katerimi je 18 univerzitetnih učbenikov, ostalo pa so predvsem leposlovje, poljudnoznanstvene knjige in njihovi prevodi v druge jezike. Bil je mentor pri desetih doktorskih nalogah in pri 22 diplomskih nalogah.

Poleg strokovnega, pedagoškega in znanstveno-raziskovalnega dela v medicini se ukvarja tudi s književnostjo. Bil je urednik revij Problemi, Literatura in Sodobnost ter knjižne zbirke Aleph. Literarno delo Alojza Ihana obsega šest zbirk poezije: Srebrnik (Ljubljana: Književna mladina Slovenije, 1985), Igralci pokra (Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba, 1989), Pesmi (Ljubljana: Emonica, 1989), Ritem (Celovec: Wieser, 1993), Južno dekle (Ljubljana: Mihelač, 1995) in Salsa (Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, 2003). Objavil je štiri romane: Hiša (Emonica, 1997), Romanje za dva … in psa (Ljubljana: Študentska založba, 1998), Hvalnica rešnjemu telesu (Cankarjeva založba, 2011), Karantena (Ljubljana: Beletrina, 2022) in pet knjig esejev: Platon pri zobozdravniku (Cankarjeva založba, 1997), Deset božjih zapovedi (Študentska založba, 2000), Državljanski eseji (Študentska založba, 2012), Čas nesmrtnosti (Beletrina, 2016) in Skupinska slika z epidemijo (Beletrina, 2022). Je tudi avtor zelo branih in v več jezikov prevedenih poljudnoznanstvenih knjig Imunski sistem in odpornost (Mladinska knjiga, 2000) in Do odpornosti z glavo (Mladinska knjiga, 2003). Za svoje literarno delo je prejel številne nagrade, med njimi nagrado Prešernovega sklada (1986). Slovenska znanstvena fundacija ga je za strokovne in poljudne prispevke o epidemiji covid-19 izbrala za komunikatorja znanosti za leto 2021.

Short biography

Prof Alojz Ihan, MD, is a physician, specialist in clinical microbiology and full professor of microbiology and immunology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana. He is the head of the Academic Department of Microbiology and Immunology, which organises and conducts teaching for more than 30 study programmes at the Faculty of Medicine, the Faculty of Biotechnology, the Faculty of Pharmacy and the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology of the University of Ljubljana, as well as postgraduate courses in biomedicine. Prof. Dr. Ihan is head of the Department of Immunology and head of the CAR T-cell production unit at the Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, Slovenia’s leading diagnostic, scientific and educational institution in the field of microbiology and immunology.

He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in Ljubljana in 1987. In 1988, he started working at the Institute of Microbiology and Immunology at the Faculty of Medicine in Ljubljana. In 1991 and 1992, he worked at the National Cancer Research Institute in Genoa (INRC). In 1993, he obtained a doctorate in medical sciences with a dissertation on “Isolation and characterisation of membrane proteins that determine the alloreactivity of natural killer cells in humans”. In 1994, he was a visiting researcher at the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute in Bethesda, USA. He has specialised in clinical microbiology since 1997. In 2006, he was appointed full professor of microbiology and immunology at the Faculty of Medicine in Ljubljana.

His professional and scientific work focuses primarily on the diagnosis of congenital disorders of the immune system, which is carried out by the Department of Immunology in cooperation with the Paediatric Clinic of the University Medical Centre Ljubljana. Another area of activity is the production of genetically modified T lymphocytes (CAR-T) for the purpose of antitumor therapy, which is carried out in collaboration with the Clinical Department of Haematology at the University Medical Centre Ljubljana.

Prof. Dr. Ihan is the main mentor for specialisation in clinical microbiology and immunology (Medical Chamber of Slovenia), member of the Specialist Supervisory Committee for Clinical Microbiology and Immunology (Medical Chamber of Slovenia), vice-president of the Extended Specialist Board for Microbiology and Immunology (RSK) of the Slovenian Ministry of Health, which is the most important professional body in Slovenia for the field of microbiology and immunology. He is also a member and deputy chairman of the National advisory committee on immunization (NITAG- National Immunization Technical Advisory Group) at the National Institute of Public Health and an expert for the European Adult Immunisation Board (AIB). He is also editor-in-chief of the Publishing Unit of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana (Založba UL MF) and the medical journal ISIS.

Prof Dr Ihan’s bibliography includes more than 1,500 entries (Cobiss), including over 130 articles in international scientific journals cited by the Science Citation Index (SCI) and 51 books, 18 of which are university textbooks, while the rest are mainly works of fiction, popular science books and their translations into other languages. He has supervised ten dissertations and 22 bachelor theses.

In addition to his professional, educational and scientific research activities in medicine, he was also active in literature. He was the editor of the journals Problemi, Literatura and Sodobnost as well as the book collection Aleph. Alojz Ihan’s literary work includes six volumes of poetry: Srebrnik (Ljubljana: Književna mladina Slovenije, 1985), Igralci pokra (Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba, 1989), Pesmi (Ljubljana: Emonica, 1989), Ritem (Celovec: Wieser, 1993), Južno dekle (Ljubljana: Mihelač, 1995) and Salsa (Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, 2003). He has published four novels: Hiša (Emonica, 1997), Romanje za dva … in psa (Ljubljana: Študentska založba, 1998), Hvalnica rešnjemu telesu (Cankarjeva založba, 2011), Karantena (Ljubljana: Beletrina, 2022) and five books of essays: Platon pri zobozdravniku (Cankarjeva založba, 1997), Deset božjih zapovedi (Študentska založba, 2000), Državljanski eseji (Študentska založba, 2012), Čas nesmrtnosti (Beletrina, 2016) and Skupinska slika z epidemijo (Beletrina, 2022). He is also the author of the widely read and multilingual popular science books Imunski sistem in odpornost (Mladinska knjiga, 2000) and Do odpornosti z glavo (Mladinska knjiga, 2003). He has received numerous honours for his literary work, including the Prešeren Fund Award (1986). The Slovenian Science Foundation has named him Science Communicator of the Year 2021 for his professional and popular contributions on the COVID-19 epidemic.