Research Interests:

Discovery, design and development of small-molecules as new molecularly targeted therapies for cancer, through targeting protein-protein interactions involved in programmed cell death and histone modifications.

Brief Biography:

Dr. Nikolovska-Coleska received her B.S. in Pharmacy and M.S. in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from University Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, in 1987 and 1993, respectively. Dr. Nikolovska-Coleska earned her Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from her alma materUniversity in 1999 with Professor Kiril Dorevski and Professor Tomaz Solmajer from National Institute of Chemistry in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Dr. Nikolovska-Coleska held the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, Macedonia, from 1999-2004. She completed postdoctoral training in drug discovery with Professor Shaomeng Wang at the University of Michigan from 2001 to 2004. Dr. Nikolovska-Coleska was a Research Investigator and a Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Internal Medicine and Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Michigan, from 2004-2008.

She was the recipient of Pre-Doctoral Fellowship from the Macedonian Ministry of Science (1996), Amersham Pharmacia Biotech & Science Prize for Young Scientists (1999), Chemical Structures Association (CSA) Trust Award (2000) and the International Pharmacy Initiative from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (2001).

Dr. Nikolovska-Coleska is a member of several professional organizations including, American Chemical Society, American Association for Cancer Research, International Pharmaceutical Federation and Macedonian Pharmaceutical Association.  In addition, she has served as a scientific reviewer for the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Program Grant Review Panel. She is an inventor on several patents.