Speakers

Prof. M. Cengiz YAKICIER is a graduate of İstanbul University Cerrahpaşa Medical School. He completed his residency at Lyon I University Medical School, Department of Nuclear Medicine. He earned his PhD in molecular biology and genetics from University Lyon. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard, and INSERM, and subsequently served as an assistant professor at Bilkent University. He joined the Department of Medical Biology at ACIBADEM University as Associate Professor, and was also Director of the ACIBADEM Genetic Diagnosis Center. He was appointed as the Founding Dean of ACIBADEM University Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He served as Head of the ACIBADEM Molecular Pathology Laboratory. He founded NPG AQUARIUS Genomics, which performs genomic profiling and monitoring tests on cancer patients. He served as Head of the Department of Genetics at Bahrain Oncology Center for one year and currently works as Director at Sapiens Genetics.