Siniša Djaja

Siniša Đaja (23 May 1887 – 10 November 1962) was a chemist, pharmacist and professor at the University of Belgrade, where he helped found the Faculty of Pharmacy. He was Director of the Institute of Pharmaceutical Technology from 1939-1957.

Biography He was born in Belgrade, Kingdom of Serbia to Jovan Đaja, a Roman Catholic politician, and Famija, a Jew from Sombor. In Belgrade he completed primary school, grammar school at the First Belgrade Gymnasium (in 1905), and went on to university from 1905 to 1910. During his studies, he worked in a pharmacy. becoming a state chemist specializing in toxicology. He received his doctorate in 1920 for his thesis "Zinc in the human body". (separate from the Faculty of Medicine) at the University of Belgrade, where he continued to teach, becoming a full professor in 1949. He is the author of the textbook Galen Pharmacy (1952).

Legacy A pharmacy in Zemun is named after him.