’BRAIN GAIN’ INSTEAD OF FACING ’BRAIN RE-DRAIN’
’BRAIN GAIN’ INSTEAD OF FACING ’BRAIN RE-DRAIN’

Author(s): Tanja Pavlov
Subject(s): Economy, Migration Studies, Human Resources in Economy, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Grupa 484
Summary/Abstract: `It took me long to arrive at the decision to return to my home country and hometown. The desire to be with my family and friends and at the same time to provide my country with what I had learnt in foreign laboratories was stronger than to sit in CEO armchairs, be highly paid and world famous. I told my CEO: ‘I am going to Serbia, because I couldn’t live with the fact that I didn’t give it a shot.1 These are the words of a famous returnee to Serbia, Dr Miodrag Stojkovic, the world-renown researcher in genetics, currently 47 years old. After obtaining his PhD in the field of embryology and biotechnology, and working experience in Hamburg, Munich, Newcastle and Valencia, and after numerous accomplishments - obtaining the permit from the British Government to be the first in Europe allowed to start working with embryonic stem cells from human embryos created using cloning technology, creating lines of embryonic stem cells, which the British scientists had been trying to achieve for 5 years unsuccessfully, and becoming one of the 12 most eminent scientists in the world - he returned to Serbia, his home town Leskovac, leaving the position of Deputy Director of the Prince Philip Centre of Investigation in Valencia that lies on 32,000 square meters and has 300 scientistsassociates, after having spent 19 years abroad. Accomplishments of Dr Miodrag Stojkovic upon his return to Serbia and his contribution to the development of the scientific area he works on, to local community and the country in general, demonstrate how much a

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