After graduating from TED Ankara College and Ankara University Faculty of Medicine, she completed her specialization in Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology and her Ph.D. in Medical Biology and Genetics at Gazi University Faculty of Medicine. She has also pursued a Ph.D. program in Clinical Psychology through an international program. Her field of interest is Molecular Microbiology. She currently manages the Molecular Microbiology Laboratory at Gazi Hospital.
In the field of Clinical Microbiology, her work focuses on the gut microbiota and its modulation, microbiome, metagenomic analyses, and probiotics. She continues to serve as a faculty member at Gazi University Faculty of Medicine. She is a founding member and the President of the Microbiota and Probiotic Association (MikroBiyom). She also serves as the Project Director of the Turkish Probiotic Guide (www.probiyotikrehberi.com).
Her main area of interest lies in one of the most current domains of personalized medical approaches—analyzing an individual’s gut microbiota profile through microbiome analysis (she has developed a proprietary microbiome analysis system called myBIOTIC) and supporting preventive medicine for chronic inflammations through personalized intestinal modulation and probiotic determination. This approach aims to promote healthy living conditions and support treatment personalization in prominent diseases.
She is actively involved in personalized microbiome analyses, the development of probiotic, prebiotic, and postbiotic products, as well as consultancy services. She has also developed a first-of-its-kind product in Turkey in collaboration with myBIOTIC and arTUE—CRAN&CRIS, a vaginal microbiota support product that contains Lactobacillus crispatus postbiotic, cranberry oil, and a Nioli oil carrier system.
