Milica Vukmirovic previously served as a Venture Creation Consultant and Blavatnik Associate for OCR while she was an Associate Research Scientist in Dr N. Kaminski’s group at the Center for Precision Pulmonary Medicine at Yale. Milica’s research focused on understanding gene regulatory networks in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and development of an anti-fibrotic drug. 

Prior to coming to Yale, Milica was a Postdoctoral Fellow & Project Manager at the International Centre for Health Innovation, Ivey Business School, in Canada, where she evaluated potential for several inventions to be adopted into the health care sector. She received a PhD in Life Sciences from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Florida State University, College of Medicine, where she performed research on fibrosis and in parallel, initiated a series of an Entrepreneurial Postdoctoral Panels.