简介：Matičić Dražen is a full professor in permanent employment at the Clinic for Surgery, Orthopaedics and Ophthalmology at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb. He has been a member of the CASA since 2014. He currently serves as head of international postgraduate specialist studies in the fields of surgery, anesthesiology, ophthalmology and veterinary dentistry and head of the Center for Experimental Surgery. He is vice-president of the Parent Committee for the field of biomedicine and health-the field of veterinary medicine. He is a scientist and head of the veterinary part of EU projects from Horizon 2020, BIO-CHIP-Bioengineered grafts for Cartilage Healing in Patients and OSTEOproSPINE-Novel Bone Regeneration comrade Osteogrow. Drazen Matičić’s scientific papers have been cited more than 305 times in WoS and 500 times in the Google Scholar database. As co-author and editor, he published six textbooks, including the first Croatian textbook of veterinary surgery and anesthesiology. He was elected associate member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2014, and as a full member in 2018. In the same year, he was elected as a full member of the Croatian Academy of Medical Sciences.