Nevenka Kregar Velikonja is assistant professor of biology. She is Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Novo mesto. She completed a PhD in Biotechnology with a thesis on cell therapy for cartilage regeneration, in 2002. She worked in the cell-therapy company Educell for 15 years, and for the last 7 years, she has mainly been pursuing an academic career. Her research interests are tissue engineering and cell therapies, and for some years now, also public health issues connected with contagious diseases and hygiene.