Miodrag Stojković

Miodrag Stojković (

Stojković earned his Veterinary Medicine Degree from the University of Belgrade, then in Yugoslavia, in 1990. He then moved to Munich for several years, where he gained his Veterinary Medicine Equivalency from LMU, worked there as a Post-Doctoral Fellow responsible for in vitro production of bovine embryos and later served as head of the IVF Laboratory for LMU's Dept. of Molecular Animal Breeding & Biotechnology. In January 2001, he co-founded the European College for Animal Reproduction (ECAR) and served as a scientific adviser to Therapeutic Human Polyclonals in Tucson, USA and Agrobiogen GmbH in Laretzhausen, Germany. He returned to Munich and LMU the following year, where he headed the UVF Laboratory and served as senior research embryonologist and senior research associate. In 2003, he moved to England and Newcastle University as a university reader in embryology and stem cell biology at the medical school's Institute of Human Genetics. In August 2004, he was granted the first licence to use nuclear transfer embryos to derive human embryonic stem cells in Europe, and in the following month, he became the deputy director of the Centre for Stem Cell Biology and Developmental Genetics at the University of Newcastle.^[3] In 2005, he served as a visiting professor to the University of Kragujevac in Serbia and Montenegro. Later in the year, he became chair in embryology and stem cell biology at the University of Newcastle, and in 2006, deputy director and head of the Cellular Reprogramming Laboratory at the Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe in Valencia, Spain.

Awards

• June 2000 Winner of the International ARTA award in Jena.
• Apr. 2003 Honorary Research Associate of the School of Surgical & Reproductive Sciences, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Newcastle.
• Dec. 2004 Honorary citizen of Leskovac, Serbia

References

External links

• David Cyranoski, "Human embryos cloned from adult cells" Nature, 1/17/2008
• Jens Lubbadeh, "Researchers celebrate artificial sperm production", Spiegel, 10/28/2009
• "Menschen bei Maischberger" ARD, 6/6/2006

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