Naşide Gözde Durmuş
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Naside Gözde Durmuş | |
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| Born | 1985 (age 39–40) İzmir, Turkey |
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| Institutions | Stanford University |
Naside Gözde Durmuş (born 1985) is a Turkish scientist and geneticist. As of 2019, she is Assistant Professor of Radiology at Stanford University. Her research focuses on nanotechnology and micro-technology applications on current world-threatening health issues, like cancer and antibiotic resistance. In 2015, MIT Technology Review listed her under the category of pioneers in the magazine's list of 35 Innovators Under 35.[1]
Durmuş was born in 1985 in İzmir, Turkey.[2] In 2003, she started her undergraduate studies at the Middle East Technical University, specializing in Molecular Biology and Genetics. Later on, she obtained a Fulbright scholarship and moved to the United States to pursue higher education, achieving a Masters in Engineering from Boston University in 2009, and receiving a Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering from Brown University in May 2013.[3]
Durmus is currently an assistant professor at Stanford University. In 2014, she took a position as a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford. She conducted her postdoctoral research with Ronald W. Davis at the Stanford University Genome Technology Center and Stanford University School of Medicine.[4] In 2015, she has been recognized among the "Top 35 Innovators Under 35" (TR35), as a pioneer in biotechnology and medicine, by MIT Technology Review.