Milomir Kovac

In 2017, Kovac, together with the Federal University of Kazan and the University of Nottingham (Great Britain), was the first in the world to successfully apply the gene therapy technology in the treatment of severe damage of equine tendon and ligaments.

In April, 2014, Kovac received the most prestigious award in veterinary medicine of the Russian Federation "Golden scalpel" in the nomination "For the introduction of innovative technologies in the veterinary medicine".

In October, 2013, Kovac was awarded at the Moscow State Academy of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnology, the title of professor "honoris causa" for outstanding achievements in the field of equine medicine in the Russian Federation.

Since 2007, in addition Kovac has been working as the Lecturer for " Equine Biology and Pathology" of the Moscow State Academy of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnology and as a columnist for the Russian magazine "Horse World”.

Since 2007, Kovac has been the only full-time available equine surgeon specialist in the Russian Federation. He started the first implementation equine colic surgery in Russia. In the course of ten years, 300 such operations were performed, with the percentage of survival rate of over 82%. Prior 2007, all horses with intestinal strangulation died in the Russian Federation, because nobody could perform the colic surgery. In addition, Kovac was the first in the Russian Federation, to perform laparoscopic surgery for equine cryptorchidism, and cryosurgery to remove abdominal and skin tumors. He was the first to use the mesenchymal stem cells and platelet-rich plasma for the treatment of equine tendon and ligament injury.