Anita is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Originally from Bosnia and Herzegovina, she got her B.S. in Chemistry from Methodist University as a Davis UWC Scholar. She then earned her Ph.D. in Chemistry at Duke University with Amanda Hargrove, where she developed small molecules targeting the MALAT1 RNA triple helix and helped build R-BIND, a community database of RNA-targeting small molecules. As a postdoctoral fellow with Cliff Brangwynne at Princeton, she developed Deep-Phase, an AI-powered imaging pipeline that reads functional perturbations directly from condensate morphology.

Outside the lab, Anita enjoys food - growing, making, and eating it - as well as spending time outdoor with her dog Pablo (see below).