First award for best Oral presentation at SGPI 2026 Symposium
Aleksandra Dašić, MD
Aleksandra Dašić is one of the recipients of the Best Oral Presentation Award at the 2nd International SGPI Symposium for the abstract entitled “Serum IgM and Soluble IL-2 Receptor as Predictors of Granulomatous-Lymphocytic Interstitial Lung Disease in CVID”. She is an internal medicine specialist at the Clinic of Allergy and Immunology, a subspecialty trainee in Allergy and Clinical Immunology, and a PhD student at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade. She has been an active member of SGPI since 2024 and of the European Society for Immunodeficiencies (ESID) since 2026. She attended the Spring PID School in Prague in 2025. Her primary research interests include pulmonary manifestations in patients with inborn errors of immunity.
Jelena Ljubičić, MD
Jelena Ljubičić is one of the recipients of the Best oral presentation award at the SGPI 2026 Symposium for her presentation entitled "CVID-Associated Enteropathy: Clinical, Biochemical and Genetic Insights from a Single-Center Cohort." She is works at the Clinic of Allergy and Immunology of the University Clinical Center of Serbia and is also a PhD student at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade. Her primary field of interest are inborn errors of immunity. Jelena is a Junior Country Representative for Serbia in the European Society for Immunodeficiencies (ESID) and participant in the ESID school „PID Care in development“ in 2025. In 2026, she completed a clinical observership in the United Kingdom as a scholar of the Lilić-Abinun Foundation for the Advancement of Clinical Immunology in Serbia.
Second award for best Oral presentation at SGPI 2026 Symposium
Nevenka Cigrovski, MD
My name is Nevenka Cigrovski, I am a pediatrician in the Department of Pediatrics, UHC Zagreb, finishing my specialization in pediatric allergology and clinical immunology. My area of interest are primary immunodeficiencies (PID) and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) in children with inborn errors of immunity. I spent six months on clinical observerships in the field of pediatric HSCT in UMC Utrecht (Netherlands) and The Great Northern Children’s Hospital, Newcaste upon Tyne (UK). At the 2nd International Symposium on Inborn Errors of Immunity of the SGPI I won shared second prize for my paper „A Pediatric Case Series of Autoimmune Lymphoproliferative Syndrome (ALPS) – a Single Cente Experience“.
Giulia Palazzini, MD
Dr. Giulia Palazzini is a nephrologist at Careggi University Hospital, Florence, Italy. Previously, she worked in the Nephrology Department and Rare Diseases Unit of Meyer Children’s Hospital, Florence, where she developed a particular interest in rare kidney diseases. Her clinical and research activities focus on immune-mediated kidney diseases, particularly lupus nephritis, as well as renal manifestations of primary immunodeficiencies and interferonopathies. Additional areas of interest include Erdheim–Chester disease and retroperitoneal fibrosis. She received the award for her abstract, “Type I Interferon-associated glomerulonephritis as a novel renal phenotype in LIG4 Syndrome.”
