Miodrag Stojković ( sr, Миодраг Стојковић) (born July 5, 1964, in

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, then

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) is a Serbian researcher in genetics with the Institute of Human Genetics at

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. He holds a PhD from the

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. As of January 2006, he is serving as a deputy director and head of Cellular Reprogramming Laboratory, Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe,

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. According to

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magazine, Stojković has attempted to create

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by injecting a patient's own DNA into an ovum with the genetic material removed. He hopes to harvest

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—which can develop into almost any organ—and coax them to produce insulin in diabetics. This research could lead to a cure for

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and

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On the German TV show "Menschen bei Maischberger" (June 2006), he claimed that stem cell therapy would allow paraplegic patients to walk in three years.

Biography

Stojković earned his Veterinary Medicine Degree from the

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, then in Yugoslavia, in 1990. He then moved to

for several years, where he gained his Veterinary Medicine Equivalency from LMU, worked there as a Post-Doctoral Fellow responsible for ''in vitro'' production of bovine embryos and later served as head of the IVF Laboratory for LMU's Dept. of Molecular Animal Breeding & Biotechnology. In January 2001, he co-founded the European College for Animal Reproduction (ECAR) and served as a scientific adviser to Therapeutic Human Polyclonals in

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, USA and Agrobiogen GmbH in Laretzhausen, Germany. He returned to Munich and LMU the following year, where he headed the UVF Laboratory and served as senior research embryonologist and senior research associate. In 2003, he moved to England and

as a university reader in embryology and stem cell biology at the medical school's Institute of Human Genetics. In August 2004, he was granted the first licence to use nuclear transfer embryos to derive human embryonic stem cells in Europe, and in the following month, he became the deputy director of the Centre for Stem Cell Biology and Developmental Genetics at the University of Newcastle. Ulrich Bahnsen:
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No. 36, September 1. 2005, p. 36 In 2005, he served as a visiting professor to the

University of Kragujevac The University of Kragujevac ( sr, Универзитет у Крагујевцу, Univerzitet u Kragujevcu) is a public university in Kragujevac, Serbia. It is the oldest and the largest higher education institution in Šumadija and Western Ser ...

in Serbia and Montenegro. Later in the year, he became chair in embryology and stem cell biology at the University of Newcastle, and in 2006, deputy director and head of the Cellular Reprogramming Laboratory at the Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe in Valencia, Spain.

Awards

* June 2000 Winner of the International ARTA award in

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. * Apr. 2003 Honorary Research Associate of the School of Surgical & Reproductive Sciences, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Newcastle. * Dec. 2004 Honorary citizen of

, Serbia

References

External links

David Cyranoski, "Human embryos cloned from adult cells" Nature, 1/17/2008

* ttp://www.daserste.de/maischberger/sendung_dyn~uid,br60w0km051y1b1h4dawpasy~cm.asp "Menschen bei Maischberger" ARD, 6/6/2006 {{DEFAULTSORT:Stojkovic, Miodrag Serbian biologists Serbian geneticists Spanish geneticists Academics of Newcastle University University of Belgrade Faculty of Veterinary Medicine alumni People from Leskovac Living people 1964 births