Milena Stevanović

Serbian Academy of Science and Arts

University of Belgrade, Faculty of Biology

University of Belgrade, Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering

Academician Milena Stevanovic graduated from the study group Molecular Biology and Physiology at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at the University of Belgrade in 1983. She received PhD in Biological sciences in 1990 at the University of Belgrade. She spent two years of postdoctoral training in the UK at the Imperial Cancer Research Institute in London (1991-1992) and further two years at Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge (1993-1994).

She has been employed at the Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering since 1986, and appointed as a head of the Laboratory for Human Molecular Genetics since 1994. She has also been engaged as a full professor at the University of Belgrade-Faculty of Biology. She was elected as corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2009 and as a full member in 2015. She has published over 100 scientific papers, mostly in peer-reviewed scientific journals with more than 2400 citations and h-index of 18 (SCOPUS).

Her broad scope of scientific research covers several areas that include molecular biology, genetic engineering and human molecular genetics. She has made significant contributions in the areas of cloning and analyzing the structure and function of human SOX genes, as well as in studying the complex interplay of transcription factors and various signaling pathways involved in the control of their expression. Her current work is focused on studying the roles of SOX genes in the acquisition of neural and malignant phenotype.