56:. She completed her doctoral studies in the United States at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. Between 2009 and 2015, was a postdoctoral fellow at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology located in San Diego, California, USA. Then she returned to Turkey, becoming a faculty member at Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Center within
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