Asist. Prof. Željka Večerić-Haler is a Medical Doctor and Specialist of Nephrology at University Medical Center Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her clinical work is majorly associated with classical nephrology, dialysis and transplantation. She is also a teacher with pedagogical activities including training domestic and foreign medical students in internal medicine. She also works on the field of quality management at nephrology department. As a nephrologist and quality system coordinator, she faces numerous challenges from the field of bioethics and human relations. When she was a medical student, Željka Večerić Haler developed an early interest in medical research, especially basic studies involving work on animal models. She received 2 faculty Prešerns` awards for her earliest reserch work on intestinal tumors in rats and Crohns disease in human. Having a curious mind and back-ground in animal research she has completed her PhD from University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Medicine in 2016 working on project of stem cell transplantation in animal models of kidney failure. Afterwards she decided to take up the course obtaining an authorization to guide and conduct animal experiments. Her current research interests include regenerative medicine studies in human, including stem cell transplantation in antibody mediated rejection of transplanted kidney and molecular diagnostics of kidney transplant pathology. Željka resides with her family in the surroundings of Ljubljana.