Blanka Bobarević

Chemist and university professor. Born in Sarajevo, she studied chemistry in Zagreb. War disrupted her studies but she graduated in pharmaceutical chemistry eventually. She defended her doctoral dissertation at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics in Sarajevo in 1960. She became a professor at the medical faculty and the head of chemistry. She founded the The Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry in 1975. She was also the dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy (1974-78). She specialised at the National Center for Research of Natural Compounds in Paris and further in Milan, Florence, Graz & London. She published over 100 research papers.