Milica Radisic

Milica Radisic (Serbian: Милица Радишић/Milica Radišić; born 1976) is a Serbian Canadian tissue engineer, academic and researcher. She is a professor at the University of Toronto’s Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, and the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry. She co-founded TARA Biosystems and is a senior scientist at the Toronto General Hospital Research Institute.

Radisic is known for creating beating heart tissue in a dish using human-induced pluripotent stem cells. Her research has led the replication of diseased human heart tissue that can be used for drug screening to help create treatment therapies for patients with heart injury.

Radisic was recognized as a YWCA Toronto Woman of Distinction in 2018, and received the Women in Science and Engineering Breaking the Glass Ceiling Award. She is a Former Chair of the Membership Committee for the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society. Radisic is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Academy of Sciences, Canadian Academy of Engineering, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering as well as Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Society. Provided by Wikipedia