Professor Ivan Ćavar, MD, PhD Ivan Ćavar is the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Head of the Department of Immunology. He graduated in 2005 from the University of Mostar, where he received the Rector’s and Dean’s Awards for outstanding academic achievement. He also received the award for the best doctoral dissertation from the University of Zagreb School of Medicine for the academic year 2009/2010. After completing his internship at the Health Center in Siroki Brijeg, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in 2006, he successfully passed the state examination for medical doctors. In 2010, he earned his Ph.D. at the University of Zagreb with a dissertation on the role of prostanoids in mechanisms of acute toxic liver injury. From 2009 to 2014, he pursued a clinical specialization in ophthalmology, and from 2011 to 2021 he served as Assistant Director for Science and Education at the University Clinical Hospital Mostar. He was appointed professor of physiology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Mostar, in 2016. His current research focuses on immunological diseases of the eye and maculopathies, while earlier work explored the effects of prostanoid agonists and antagonists in murine models of liver injury. He has been a member of the Croatian Society of Physiologists and the Croatian Immunological Society since 2007, and of the Croatian Ophthalmological Society since 2011.