Jela Grujić - Vasić

Professor, researcher, medical and pharmaceutical chemist. Born in Foča, she moved to Sarajevo at an early age. She completed her undergraduate studies in 1947 at the University of Zagreb before returning to Sarajevo to launch her career.

She would go on to establish Department of Pharmacognosy and Drug Chemistry in Sarajevo and the first professor and head. She was also the dean of the Pharmacy faculty in the period from 1982 to 1988. She published nearly 200 scientific papers and is the author textbooks and manuals.

She was visiting professor in Lyon, Paris, Bordeaux, Moscow, and Piatigorsk. At the time she was one of only a few women to be elected as full member of the Academy of Sciences and of Art of BiH (ANUBiH). She is the recipient of numerous awards including: Veselin Masleša” Award 1984 & “27th July Award” for achievements in the pharmaceutical field 1990.