Gurkan Mollaoglu
Post-doctoral Fellow
Gurkan received his master’s degree in molecular biology and genetics from Koc University (Istanbul, Turkey) and his doctorate in oncological sciences from the University of Utah School of Medicine. He joined the Merad and the Brown labs at Mount Sinai to study the role of cancer genetics in tumor immunity. He is fascinated by the nature of the complex interactions between cancer cells and immune cells. He thinks that a better understanding of the incredibly dynamic co-evolution of cancer cells and the immune system will eventually make most cancers if not all manageable diseases.
Funding: The National Cancer Institute
Fun facts about myself:
I love cats (a requirement for Turkish citizenship!)
I only recently started to cook (and have not set my kitchen on fire yet!)
I have my name engraved on a Mars rover (alongside with 10 million other earthlings' names).