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Milica Radisic
Milica Radisic (Serbian Milica Radišić) is a biomedical engineer. She is a university professor at the University of Toronto, Canada, working in the field of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. She published 142 articles that were cited over 7000 times, resulting in H-index of 50.

Biography
Milica Radisic is born in 1976 in Backa Palanka, Serbia.

She studied at McMaster University where she obtained the B.Eng. in 1999.

In 1999, she joined the laboratory of Gordana Vunjak Novakovic at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she obtained the PhD in Chemical Engineering in 2004. During her PhD, she worked on development of tissue patch that could repair damaged heart. She got her first child during her PhD, and has three children.

Milica is activly promoting STEM to girls.

Scientific achievements and recognition
In 2008, Milica was named as MIT Technology Review 's top 35 innovators under the age of 35.

In 2010 The Scientist Magazine nominated Milica Radisic as a Scientist to Watch.

In 2012 she received Queen Elisabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal

In 2013 she received Engineers Canada Young Engineer Award

In 2015 she was accepted as the Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering

In 2017 she became the Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), Academy of Science

In 2018 she received YWCA Toronto Women of Distinction Award and became the Fellow of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Society