Nurcan Tunçbağ
Assoc. Prof.
Chemical and Biological Engineering
School of Medicine
Overview
Dr. Tuncbag is an associate professor at Koç University jointly in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and School of Medicine. She received her undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from Istanbul Technical University (İTÜ), and her master and doctorate degrees from Koç University Computational Sciences and Engineering department. She did her post-doctoral research in Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Biological Engineering Department between 2010-2014. She carried out her academic studies at Informatics Institute, Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ) between 2014-2021. Her works in computational systems biology and bioinformatics have been recognized with young scientist awards by TÜBİTAK, TÜBA, TÜSEB and BA. In 2019, she was selected for the International Rising Talent award by UNESCO-L'Oreal Foundation. She has been a member of the Global Young Academy since 2020 and Mediterranean Science Team since 2022. Her research interests are computational systems biology, bioinformatics, network-based medicine, network modeling, multi-omic data integration, single cell and bulk omic data analysis, and discovery of latent cancer driver mutations.
Research areas
Drug Design , Computational Biology and Bioinformatics , Computational Systems Biology , Network Medicine , Network Reconstruction , Single-cell and Bulk Omic Data Analysis , Multi-omic Data Integration , Latent Driver Mutation Discovery in CancerEducation
PhD, Koç University, Computational Sciences and Engineering
MS, Koç University, Computational Sciences and Engineering
BS, Istanbul Technical University, Chemical Engineering
Awards
TÜBİTAK Incentive Award
UNESCO-L'Oreal International Rising Talent Award
