Melih Akif Yıldırım

Melih Akif Yıldırım is currently a second year Medicine & Computer Engineering double major student at İstanbul Medipol University. In 2019, he graduated from Ordu Altınordu High School of Science. During his English preparatory year at the university, he went to Boston, MA as a part of a scholarship program supported by Medipol University.

During his first years in high school, he studied graduate-level biology on his own and in 2018, he got entitled for taking exclusive biology lectures, organized by TUBITAK (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) for training and qualifying students for International Science Olympiads. In 2019, he received a bronze medal in 26th National Biology Olympiads. This period helped him to get acquainted with the academic literature and to acquire theoretical foundation during his high school years.

Since 2020, he has been an intern at Neuroscience Research Center at Istanbul Medipol University Regenerative and Restorative Medicine Research Center (REMER).