Jovan Mirčetić

Jovan was born in Belgrade, where he finished his undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Biology, with Goran Brajušković as a mentor of his diploma thesis. He went on to do his PhD in Dresden, in the lab of Frank Buchholz, focusing on synthetic biology and cancer biology. This work culminated in a successful construction of one of the first genetic sensor for p53. Jovan stayed on a short post-doc in Frank’s lab, where he mostly did work on the intersection between CRISPR/Cas9 screening and cancer biology. The work mostly dealt with inactivating cancer mutations and bringing CRISPR/Cas9 screens in patient-derived primary cells and organoids.

Since September 2019, Jovan is a Junior Group Leader with Mildred Scheel Early Career Centre in Dresden that focuses on close collaborations between clinicians and biologists. His group will tackle the problem of various patterns of resistnace that form during gastric cancer treatment, utilizing CRISPR/Cas9 screening platform, and using patient-derived organoids as a model system.