Naside Gözde Durmuş (born 1985, Izmir) is a Turkish scientist and geneticist. She is currently Assistant Professor (Research) of Radiology at

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. Her research focuses on

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and micro-technology applications on current world-threatening health issues, like cancer and antibiotic resistance. In 2015,

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listed her under the category of ''pioneers'' in the magazine's list of 35

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.Gozde Durmus, 30 , It’s amazing what you can learn about a cell when you levitate it

Biography

Durmuş was born in 1985 in Izmir, Turkey. In 2003, she started her undergraduate studies at the

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, specializing in Molecular Biology and Genetics. Later on, she obtained a

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and moved to the United States to pursue higher education, achieving a Masters in Engineering from

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in 2009, and receiving a Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering from

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in May 2013. Durmus is currently an Assistant Professor at Stanford University; In 2014, she took a position as a post-doctoral researcher at Stanford. She conducted her research with

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at the Stanford University Genome Technology Center and

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. 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 Magazine.

Career

Her work focuses on developing low-cost nanotechnology tools that can be used for the diagnose and treatment of diseases, like for instance a fast method for detecting the physical features of a cell, by having them levitate in a magnetic field, this being able to measure in a shorter period of time how a microbe responds to a certain drug, and making it possible to differentiate cancerous cells from healthy ones.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Durmuş, Naşide Gözde Living people 1985 births 21st-century biologists 21st-century women scientists Turkish geneticists Women geneticists Middle East Technical University alumni Boston University alumni Brown University alumni Stanford University Department of Biology faculty