Biography

Dr. Sergej Djuranovic is a Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, USA. He earned his MSc in Biochemistry at University of Belgrade, Serbia and his PhD degree at Max-Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tubingen, Germany. His postdoctoral training was at Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore USA. His group studies mechanisms of gene expression regulation at the level of mRNA and protein synthesis. He is an author on numerous scientific papers, member of science associations as well as boards for pharmaceutical companies, science and diversity groups.