Jovana Jasnić graduated in Molecular Biology and Physiology in 2009 and earned her PhD in Biological Sciences in 2016 at the Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade. She received two awards from the Goran Ljubijankić Foundation– for the best undergraduate and doctoral thesis in molecular biology in Serbia. She is also part of the Project Management and Support Office at IMGGE.

Her research focuses on muscle molecular biology, with particular interest in the MARP (Muscle Ankyrin Repeat Proteins) family and their role in cardiac and skeletal muscle development and regeneration. She contributed to establishing zebrafish and chicken as model systems in Serbia and was part of the team that first applied CRISPR/Cas9 technology to generate zebrafish mutants lacking MARP proteins. She has developed strong expertise in fluorescent and confocal microscopy, and immunohistochemistry. Since 2019, her research has expanded to tumor molecular biology, investigating potential new therapeutics and therapeutic targets.

She received advanced training at the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim (Germany), during several visits from 2014 to 2016, where she gained additional expertise in zebrafish-based research techniques. She has participated in numerous national and international projects, including bilateral collaborations with Germany and China, the IDEAS program of the Science Fund of Serbia, where she served as work packages leader, and Horizon Europe, where she currently leads a work package.

Dr Jasnić is committed to education and science outreach, reflected in the supervision of master’s and doctoral theses and her role as lecturer in the doctoral program in Molecular Biology at the Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade.

Since 2024, she has been actively engaged in developing IMGGE’s Project Management and Support Office, focusing on strengthening institutional capacities for participation in national and European research programs.