Merve Ekingen

Merve Ekingen received her bachelor's degree in Molecular Biology and Genetics at Üsküdar University. During her undergraduate studies, she completed her internship at Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine in Göttingen, Germany. She enrolled in the Molecular Medicine and Biotechnology Master program at İstanbul Medipol University, and she has been working at Assoc. Prof. Nihal Karakaş's lab in Research Institute for Health Sciences and Technologies (SABITA) as a researcher since 2020. Her research is mainly focused on the role of integrins in neural transdifferentiation of mesenchymal stem cells and stem cell engineering.