Speakers

Gülçin Çakan-Akdoğan, PhD, is a Principal Investigator at the İzmir Biomedicine and Genome Center (İBG) and Assistant Professor at Dokuz Eylül University, Türkiye. She obtained her PhD degree from  EMBL Heidelberg and worked at at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) for her postdoctoral studies. Currently she leads the Zebrafish Models Lab at the İBG, where she develops translational zebrafish models for eye and liver diseases. Her work integrates in vivo disease modeling with therapeutic development, including anti-VEGF antibodies, nanomedicine approaches, with a strong emphasis on bridging basic mechanisms to clinically relevant solutions.