Ines Zabkar, MD

• Animal Models
• 機械学習
• パーキンソン遺伝学
• バイオ統計
• Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative (PPMI)
• Biomarker
• Proteomics
• European Population

Ines is a neurology resident at Izola General Hospital in Izola, Slovenia. She earned her medical degree from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana. During her studies, she completed a research project titled “The Effects of Estrogen on Gene Expression Profile in the Striatum of Rats with Unilateral Dopaminergic Denervation,” for which she received the Student Research Award of Highest Honor and presented her findings at the International Conference of Undergraduate Research (ICUR) in 2021.
She served as an editor for Medicinski Razgledi, a Slovenian medical journal featuring recent research, and has been an active member of SiNAPSA—the Slovenian Neuroscience Society—as well as the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS).
Ines spent two semesters at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, where she joined Ricarda Diem’s research group studying the TRPM4/NMDA complex and the interplay between neuroimmunomodulation and neurodegeneration. She also completed a semester at Charité Hospital in Berlin, including an internship in the Department of Experimental Neurology.
In 2024, she spent two months at the Compte Lab of IDIBAPS in Barcelona, developing computational neuroscience skills while analyzing datasets from patients with NMDAR encephalitis. Later that year, she undertook a research stay in Prof. Krainc’s lab at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, working on predictive modeling of Parkinson’s disease progression using proteomic data from CSF and urine within the PPMI datasets.