Milan Kojic, PhD, ORCID 0000-0001-5645-750X, born in Sabac 1963. Education: PhD in Biology (Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering), Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade (1995). Present position: Principal Research Fellow, Institute of Virology, Vaccines and Sera “Torlak” (https://torlak.rs/en/zaposleni/milan-kojic-2/). Research area: Molecular microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Gene cloning, regulation of gene expression, developments of new cloning, expression and fusion vectors, Antibiotic resistance, Role of beneficial microbes and their products (bacteriocins, lipopeptides, antimicrobial peptides, and secondary metabolites) in the battle against pathogens, Lytic bacteriophages active against multidrug resistant pathogens, mRNA vaccines. Training: Molecular genetics of lactic acid bacteria (AFRC, Norwich, UK) (1991), Regulation and expression of genes involved in stress response and stationary phase (Bacteriology Group, ICGEB, Trieste, Italy) (1998-2001). Teaching: Workshop: Bacterial Genetics: Global regulation of gene expression in bacteria, ICGEB, Trieste, Italy (2004), Molecular Genetics of Bacteria “From isolation of bacterial strains to gene regulation and overexpression”, Buenos Aires, Argentina, one-semester course for PhD students (2014). Dr Milan Kojic published more than 160 manuscripts in highly ranked Microbiology and Molecular Genetics journals. According to SCOPUS citation database publications of Milan Kojic are cited 4,502 times with Hirsch index h=41 (https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7004336492). Milan Kojic was PI of several international and national projects: “Regulation of gene expression in stationary phase in pseudomonads² CRP/YUG03-01, Funded by ICGEB, Trieste, Italy 2003-2005; ²Characterization of spectinomycin induced chromossomal inversion in Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis bv. diacetylactis S50². CRP/YUG10-01, Funded by ICGEB, Trieste, Italy 2011-2013; ²Genes and molecular mechanisms promoting probiotic activity of lactic acid bacteria from Western Balkan² Funded by Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development (MPNTR), RS, 2010-2019. ²Biodiversity and mutagenesis studies in LAB", CSK Food Enrichment BV, The Netherland, 2014-2015 and bilateral project ²Characterization of new bacterial enzymes to ameliorate food quality and human health² with the Republic of Slovenia (2018-2019). He has been an evaluator of several international projects for the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, ICGEB and Serbian MNTRI. He has done over 400 reviews for more than 30 scientific journals. In addition, he is editor in four well ranked Scientific journals: Frontiers in Microbiology, PloS One, Proteins & Peptide Letters and Journal of Applied Microbiology. According to the database (Research.com; https://research.com/u/milan-kojic) Milan Kojic is ranked 1st in Serbia among Best Scientists for 2026 in the area of Microbiology.