Professor Jason Kovacic graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1994 and undertook residency and cardiology specialty training in interventional cardiology at St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney, becoming a Fellow of the Australasian College of Physicians in 2003. He then completed a PhD in Cardiovascular Medicine at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute.
In 2007, Prof Kovacic was elected a Fellow of The American College of Cardiology and relocated to the USA's National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLPBI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland. At the NIH, Prof Kovacic discovered critical new pathways that led to the blockage of the body’s blood vessels. He then moved to The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York where he worked for 11 years, before relocating to Sydney in 2020 to lead the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute.
