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Miljan Simonovic, Ph.D., is a program director in the Division of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Biological Chemistry. He administers research grants covering synthetic biology, enzymology, and biology of transporters, channels, membrane proteins, and enzymes and proteins, both natural and artificial, which are dependent on transition metals. In addition, Simonovic manages collaborative program grants for multidisciplinary teams and serves as the NIGMS scientific point-of-contact for synthetic biology.
Prior to joining NIGMS, Simonovic was a full professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at the University of Illinois Chicago.
Simonovic earned a B.S. and M.Sc. in biochemistry from the University of Belgrade in Serbia and a Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology from the University of Illinois Chicago. As a Jane Coffin Childs Fellow, he conducted postdoctoral research in biochemistry and molecular biophysics in the laboratory of Tom Steitz at Yale University.