Professor Jasmina Jovanovic - Inaugural Lecture

 Professor Jasmina N. Jovanovic received her BSc in Molecular Biology and Physiology from the Faculty of Science, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in 1991, and her PhD in Neuroscience from The Rockefeller University, USA, in 1998. During the course of her PhD, Jasmina received the John S. Segal Memorial Fellowship Award in 1994 and the Rockefeller University Karolinska Institute Exchange Program Award in 1996. Jasmina joined UCL in 1999 as the Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Pharmacology. During this time, Jasmina also worked as a summer investigator at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, sponsored by the The Grass Foundation Fellowship in Neuroscience in 2001 and The Grass Foundation Faculty Award in 2004. Jasmina started working at the School of Pharmacy in 2003 as Lecturer in the Department of Pharmacology. She was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2007 and Professor of Neuroscience in 2019. Jasmina currently holds the position of Director of the MSc Experimental Pharmacology and Therapeutics programme at the School of Pharmacy, Postgraduate Research Tutor in the Faculty of Life Sciences, and UCL Academic Lead for the PhD Programme at the Crick Institute.