Zaneta Nikolovska-Coleska
University of Michigan

Biography
Dr Zaneta Nikolovska-Coleska is a Professor of Pathology, Director of Molecular & Cellular Pathology Graduate Program, and Associate Director of Program in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Michigan. She also serves as a co-Director of T32 NIGMS Training Program in Translational Research. Dr Nikolovska-Coleska received her BS in Pharmacy (1987) and MS and PhD in Pharmaceutical ÀË»¨Ö±²¥ (1993 and 1999 respectively) from University Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, North Macedonia.
She held the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical ÀË»¨Ö±²¥ at her alma mater university and completed her postdoctoral training at the University of Michigan, under the guidance of Professor Shaomeng Wang.
Dr Nikolovska-Coleska joined the faculty of the Department of Pathology as a tenure-track Assistant Professor (2008), and was promoted to tenured Associate Professor (2015) and Full Professor (2021). Her research is focused on validating and targeting protein-protein interactions, chemical genomics, and the development of small-molecule inhibitors as targeted cancer therapies.
She holds a number of patents and has received numerous awards including, New Investigator Award from Leukemia Research Foundation, Innovator Award from Harrington Discovery Institute and AACR-Bayer Innovation and Discovery Award. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chemical Biology Society (ICBS) and in 2019 was elected President-Elect.
In October 2022, she was appointed Associate Dean of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies at the University of Michigan, Medical School.
RSC affiliations
Editorial board, RSC Chemical Biology
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