Dr. Petar Brlek is the President of the Croatian Society for Human Genetics (HDHG) Youth Section and leads a scientific team at St. Catherine Specialty Hospital,  a European center of excellence in personalized medicine. A graduate of the School of Medicine Zagreb in 2021, where he received the Rector’s Award for his individual scientific research, he is also the recipient of the prestigious national award  "Oscar of Knowledge" for outstanding achievements in science. In 2022, Dr. Brlek began a PhD in Human Genetics, Genomics, and Proteomics, further enhancing his expertise at renowned international genetic laboratories specializing in whole genome sequencing. He has delivered lectures on the clinical applications of genomics in oncology, pediatrics, and personalized medicine, invited by institutions such as the Croatian Pediatric Society and the Croatian Academy of Medical Sciences. In 2023, he was elected as President of the HDHG Youth Section and became the first clinical genetics resident in Croatia. To date, he has published over 50 scientific papers, conference abstracts, and textbooks in the fields of molecular oncology, metabolic bone and cartilage disorders, neurometabolic diseases, personalized and regenerative medicine, immunology, clinical genetics, genomics, cellular therapy, and gene therapy.