SHORT CV
Dr. Melis Kartal Yandım was born in İzmir in 1986. She completed her undergraduate degree with honors from the Department of Biology at Ege University’s Faculty of Science in 2008. She then pursued her master’s and doctoral studies at the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, İzmir Institute of Technology, earning her master’s degree in 2010 and her PhD in 2015. Following her doctoral studies, Dr. Kartal Yandım conducted postdoctoral research at the same department between February 2015 and April 2016.
Her research interests include cancer molecular biology, mechanisms of multidrug resistance, sphingolipid metabolism, apoptosis mechanisms, drug repurposing, and combination therapies.
In 2022, she worked as a Visiting Scientist at the Danish Cancer Institute’s (Kræftens Bekæmpelse) Lipidomics group for two months. She then continued in this role for 12 months from 2023 to 2024. During this period, she was supported by TÜBİTAK2219 Fellowship Program.
From 2009 to 2015, Dr. Kartal Yandım served as a Research Assistant at the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at İzmir Institute of Technology. Since April 2016, she has been a faculty member in the Department of Medical Biology at the Faculty of Medicine, İzmir University of Economics.
ORCID: 0000-0003-0573-4276