Biography:

Dr. Danica Stanimirovic obtained M.D. degree in 1986, and Ph.D. degree in Neurochemistry in 1990, from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade. After clinical internship in neurology, she joined the Stroke Branch at the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), NIH in Bethesda, and subsequently NRC’s Institute for Biological Sciences in Ottawa in 1993. She established and led the NRC’s Cerebrovascular Research Group and was appointed Director of the NRC’s Neurobiology Program in 2001. The Neurobiology Program (>100 scientific staff) caries out both fundamental and applied research aimed to developing new diagnostics and therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases. Dr. Stanimirovic is an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of Ottawa.

Short summary of research interests:

Dr. Stanimirovic is a Principal Investigator on projects funded by the NRC’s Initiative in Genome Sciences and Health Related Research, Heart and Stroke Foundation, and bipharmaceutical companies. Dr. Stanimirovic has over 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals and has given over 40 invited lectures in last 5 years. She served on Scientific Advisory Boards of biotechnology companies and NIH Special Initiative Panels, and organized and chaired several international meetings. Her areas of expertise include blood-brain barrier, brain drug delivery, stroke, brain angiogenesis, and molecular imaging.