Marjana Tomic-Canic, Ph.D., is William H. Eaglstein M.D. Chair in Wound Healing, Vice Chair of Research and Professor of Dermatology, and the Director of the Wound Healing and Regenerative Medicine Research Program in the Dr. Phillip Frost Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She also serves as a professor for the Microbiology and Immunology, Molecular and Cell Pharmacology and Human Genomics and Genetics Graduate Programs. In addition to her full-time faculty appointment at UM, Tomic-Canic also holds adjunct faculty appointment at the New York University (NYU) School of Medicine.
Tomic-Canic received her doctoral and postdoctoral training at NYU School of Medicine before joining the faculty in 1994. In 2005, as a faculty member of the Cornell University Weill Medical College, she directed the Tissue Repair Program at the Hospital for Special Surgery’s Department of Tissue Engineering, Regeneration, and Repair. Tomic-Canic joined the Miller School of Medicine in 2008.
For more than 30 years, Tomic-Canic’s primary research interest has been in skin biology and regenerative medicine. Her current research focuses on the molecular and cellular mechanisms of wound healing and its pathophysiology, human and diabetic models of wound healing, wound genome, local sustained gene delivery, predictive and diagnostic biomarkers for chronic wounds. Most recently she initiated wound healing space program and testing mechanisms of repair in microgravity. A recognized national and international leader and inventor in wound healing research, she has continuously been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for over 20 years.
Tomic-Canic is a member of the Society of Investigative Dermatology, the Wound Healing Society, serving as its President 2016-2017. She had multiple editorial responsibilities, including serving on the editorial boards of the Journal of Biological Chemistry, Journal of Investigative Dermatology (Section Editor), Editor of the Experimental Dermatology and Senior Editor of the Wound Repair and Regeneration. Dr Tomic-Canic also served at the Advisory Council of the NIH and was appointed to The Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) NIH Multi-Council Working Group. She served as a Chair of the NIH ACTS study section and currently serves as the member of the University of Miami Research Council.