Dragan Milenkovic, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences at the Plants for Human Health Institute at North Carolina State University, Kannapolis, NC, USA. Before that he was a Faculty Researcher at the Department of Nutrition at University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA, and prior to that, a Scientific Researcher at French Institute for Agricultural Research. He received his master’s degree in genetics and molecular modeling from University of Paris, France, and his PhD in molecular genetics from University of Versailles, France.

Dr. Milenkovic has mentored more than 30 students, including undergraduates, graduates and post-docs. He has been PI or co-PI of nearly 25 projects related to diets, polyphenols, genomics and health, and published over 120 manuscripts in peer-review journals that were cited nearly 8,000 times.