Arş. Gör. Dr. BERKCAN DOĞAN

I am currently working as a Research Assistant in the Department of Medical Genetics and the Department of Translational Medicine at Bursa Uludağ University, Bursa, Türkiye. My primary research focuses on identifying epigenetic biomarkers and elucidating their interactions in contributing to cancer risk.

I graduated with honours from the Department of Biology at Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey. During my undergraduate studies, I had the opportunity to enhance my research skills through the Erasmus Internship Program at the Centre for Integrative Biology in Trento, Italy. I pursued my Master of Science degree in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Istanbul University, where my research centred on identifying and validating novel ovarian cancer-specific microRNAs in serum using high-throughput techniques.

For my PhD thesis in the Department of Translational Medicine at Bursa Uludağ University, I investigated circulating tumor cells and metastasis-related circulating microRNA expression profiles in metastatic colorectal cancer patients.

My research portfolio includes multiple projects to discover epigenetics-based RNA biomarkers associated with various diseases, especially cancer. I have also been actively involved in bioinformatics studies, analyzing cancer datasets to explore the molecular pathways of microRNAs and their target genes. Additionally, I collaborated with QIAGEN GmbH, Hilden, Germany on two separate liquid biopsy-based studies, where I optimized and calibrated various methodologies to advance the field of non-invasive diagnostics.