Mirjana Turkalj, MD, PhD, graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Zagreb. She completed specialist training in pediatrics in 1998 and subspecialist training in pediatric allergy, clinical immunology, and pediatric pulmonology in 2005. She was elected to the position of Assistant professor in 2015, followed by full professor in 2019. She served as a Deputy Director of the Srebrnjak Children’s Hospital in Zagreb (DBS, 2010–2019), the Head of the Reference Centre of Clinical Allergology of the Croatian Ministry of Health, and Head of the Department for Allergology, Immunology, and Pulmonology at DBS. Her academic work is based at the Faculty of Medicine of Croatian Catholic University, the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Zagreb, the Medical School of the University of Osijek, and the Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology. Her interests include immunological mechanisms of asthma and allergic diseases, mechanisms of allergen-specific immunotherapy, food allergy and food immunotherapy, and the effect of environmental factors on the development of allergic diseases. She has published more than 240 manuscripts and 30 book chapters. She is the PI of several research programs funded through EU funds, with a large network of collaborators in several EU countries and the UK.