Nikola Štoković, MD, born on April 3, 1992, in Pula, Croatia, is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Anatomy and Clinical Anatomy, University of Zagreb School of Medicine, conducting research at the Laboratory for Mineralized Tissues. His expertise is bone morphogenetic proteins (BMP) biology and their application in tissue engineering and bone regeneration. He has been recognized for leading preclinical studies on synthetic calcium phosphate ceramics combined with the osteoinductive rhBMP6, elucidating the mechanisms of BMP-mediated osteogenesis and the structural properties of newly formed bone across different animal models. These studies were conducted within projects of the Center of Excellence for Reproductive and Regenerative Medicine and the EU Horizon 2020 project OSTEOproSPINE, where he served as a co-leader of several work packages. He is currently the principal investigator of the EU/NPOO-funded project “Development of an advanced bone regeneration therapy based on rhBMP6 and bisphosphonates – OsteoFusion” He is the author or co-author of 19 peer-reviewed articles and 54 international conference abstracts, cited 562 times (Google Scholar, h-index 14; i10-index 14). In his academic role, he is dedicated to the scientific training of undergraduate and postgraduate students and currently supervises three doctoral candidates. In May 2025, he was elected to the ECTS Academy, which recognizes outstanding young scientists in musculoskeletal research.