Dr. Borovecki was born in 1975 in Zagreb, Croatia. He graduated from Zagreb Medical School in 1999 and attained his PhD from Zagreb Medical School in 2004. He was a visiting research scientist at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital on several occasions from 2003 to 2007. Since 2007 he has headed the Department for Functional Genomics at the Center for Translational and Clinical Research, University of Zagreb School of Medicine. Dr Borovecki is the recipient of the Award for Best PhD Thesis defended at Zagreb Medical School for year 2003/2004 and was awarded the National Science Foundation of Croatia Scholarship, as well as the Fulbright Scholarship.