Dr. Jozic is a Research Associate Professor in the Dr.Phillip Frost Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery. He did his postdoctoral training in the lab of Marjana Tomic-Canic at UM, where he focused on understanding molecular mechanisms by which glucocorticoids inhibit wound healing. He was a previous winner of the 3M Fellowship from the Wound Healing Foundation in 2015, Young Investigator Award from WHS in 2018, as well as the H. Paul Ehrlich Rising Star Award from the Wound Healing Foundation in 2022. His research interests are aimed at unterstanding the role of lipid rafts in cutaneous biology, particularly focusing on chronic wounds, hypertrophic scarring, scarring alopecia, psoriasis and age-related changes in skin. On the basic science level, Dr. Jozic seeks to understand how cells navigate the complex 3D environment to promote directionality and cohesiveness necessary for successful wound closure. He has identified caveolin-1 as a potential biomarker of older skin and non-healing chronic wounds and is now trying to understand the intricate mechanisms by which caveolin proteins regulate cell migration. Currently, Dr. Jozic's lab is working on developing lipidomic and proteomic approaches to identify biomarkers of various skin diseases which will in the early detection of chronic wounds and provide targeted treatments as well as to develop novel formulations for targeting these molecules.