Ivan Topisirovic obtained his M.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Belgrade, Serbia. He completed his post-doctoral training, first with Dr. Katherine L.B. Borden (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York and IRIC, Université de Montréal), then with Dr. Nahum Sonenberg (McGill University). During his post-doctoral tenure, he was studying how gene expression is regulated at the post-transcriptional level. In particular, he focused on the post-transcriptional regulatory networks centered on the eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4E (eIF4E), which is a pivotal regulator of mRNA translation and whose activity is frequently dysregulated in cancer. In 2011, he joined the Lady Davis Institute as an independent investigator and obtained an Assistant Professor position in the Department of Oncology, McGill University.