Milos Kostic's Biography

Milos Kostic, Researcher, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research

Dr. Kostic currently works as a research fellow at the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He earned his B.Sc. in Biology in 2010 (major Molecular Biology and Physiology) from the University of Belgrade, Serbia. He moved to Germany to achieve his M.Sc. (major Neuroscience) from Heidelberg University in 2012, with mentor Prof. Dr. Ana-Martin Villalba at the German Cancer Research Center. He finished his PhD in 2017 in the lab of Prof. Dr. Wieland Huttner, at Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden University of Technology. The focus of his PhD was the role of Hippo signaling pathway in the evolutionary expansion of human neocortex. His current research interests are brain development, 3D in vitro cultures and modelling neurodevelopmental disorders.