Nikolce Gjorevski's Biography

Nikolce Gjorevski, Scientist, Mechanistic Safety, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Roche Innovation Center Basel

After receiving an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering at Lafayette College, I enrolled in the graduate chemical and biological engineering program at Princeton University. Mentored by Celeste Nelson, I used novel tissue microfabrication approaches to study mammary gland development and disease quantitatively. After completing my PhD at Princeton, I received an EMBO Long-Term Postdoctoral Fellowship to carry out postdoctoral work, in the group of Matthias Lutolf at EPFL. In Lausanne, I used modular synthetic hydrogels to dissect the regulation of intestinal stem cell fate by the ECM, and designed well-defined alternatives to natural matrices for the culture of epithelial stem cells and organoids. I began a Scientist position at Roche in 2018, joining the company’s effort to establish advanced cellular models and microphysiological systems as platforms for drug discovery.