Jovana Grbic, Phd Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, California, United States

As scientific director at BioScience Communications, an Edelman agency, I provide essential strategic, communications, and creative guidance to clients in the scientific, pharmaceutical and biotechnology spaces.

I provide technical and strategic expertise to cross-functional teams to communicate data, tell stakeholder stories, announce clinical milestones and engage with media for clients at leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.My work has spanned across a diverse range of disease areas and therapeutic modalities, with a notable emphasis in cardiovascular medicine, ophthalmology, vaccines and infectious diseases, rare disease and genetics, immunology, and oncology.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Greater Los Angeles Area

•Organized content calendar for all internal and external publications, company messaging and technical materials; ghost wrote print, digital and blog thought leadership articles on behalf of key opinion leaders; collaborated with CEO and C-Suite executives on presentations, talks and seminars.•Oversaw communication and strategy with external PR agency; coordinated interviews, prepared media pitches and draft thought leadership bylines; ghost write major announcements•Digital content curator of company website; provided weekly and monthly new content email digests to sales and marketing teams

Jerusalem Area, Israel

As a consultant to this biotech startup, I advised on press releases, owned content, internal collateral, and performed trade media outreach to support a pivotal Phase 3 influenza clinical study. Successful media placements in Scientific American, CNN, The Scientist, The Wall Street Journal, “Talk Nerdy” podcast, among other leading outlets.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Over a decade of experience providing scientific communications and storytelling, strategic marketing insight and product development strategy for companies in the biomedical, pharmaceutical, technology, media and entertainment sectors. •Current and past clients include BiondVax, Macmillan Learning, Medicines360, clear, inc., DELL, Chemical and Engineering News Media Group, Puritan Medical Products, Patexia.com, Creative Retail Packaging, the UCLA School of Film, the Tribeca Film Institute Sloan Foundation, ABC Television.•Former Associate Editor and contributor to trade journal Chemical and Engineering News, where I wrote print and digital articles on the intersection between science communication in media and entertainment.•Science blogger for intellectual property and patent site Patexia.com, providing analysis on the biomedical and technology impact of innovative research advances.•Co-authored 2011 hit science book Fringe Science and 2013 American Chemical Society volume Hollywood Chemistry.

Cambridge, Ma/Tel Aviv, Israel

I conceptualized and created all facets of ground-up branding (including web copy, blog content and print ads) for this startup company specializing in laboratory management software for scientists and engineers (Labguru). In collaboration with our sales, marketing and technical development teams, I:•Brainstormed and wrote a series of white papers on laboratory and research organization.•Organized and hosted a series of live webinars on science communication skills.•Collaborated with Chicago-based PR company HDMZ to create external promotional content and articles.•Provided trade show support, including landing page copywriting, marketing materials and interactive booth sales lead generation.

Los Angeles, Ca

I project managed and provided counsel for key aspects of the establishment and implementation of a high-throughput, high-volume BSL3+ laboratory for global infectious disease surveillance and prevention. I co-wrote and reviewed successful multi-million dollar grant applications to the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation and The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Department of Defense), helped coordinate research collaborations, meetings and data communication between scientists at UCLA and UC Davis and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, researched laboratory equipment purchase and facilitated meetings and information with architects and biosafety experts, and wrote detailed summary reports on all facets of laboratory design, grant funding and research program development for the Office of the Dean at the School of Public Health

Seattle, Wa

Published research comparing gene expression of pre-neoplastic to post-metastatic lymphatic cells infected with the proto-oncogenes c-myc, c-myb and v-Rel in avian lymphoma development using a bursa of Fabricius model.

Phd, Biochemistry, Oncogenomics

Activities and Societies: American Chemical Society, Network for Women in ScienceDoctoral thesis research focused on a functional genomic.

Ba, Chemistry, 3.7/4.0

Activities and Societies: Alpha Chi Sigma (chemistry fraternity), Iota Sigma Pi (honor society for women in chemistry)Undergraduate honors.

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