Stipan Jonjic

Stipan Jonjic is Professor and Chair of the Center for Proteomics, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Medicine. His research interest has primarily focused on the physiology of the immune response to viral infection using the mouse cytomegalovirus (MCMV) as a model. His group was first to discover the physiological plasticity of the T cell response to viral infection. Previous studies suggested that CD8 T cells are indispensable for virus control and establishment of latency; on the other hand, we have shown that animals lacking CD8 T cells could still terminate productive infection and establish latency through compensatory responses mediated by CD4 T cells (J Virol. 1990).