Academic Members

Prof. Dr. Zeynep Ocak graduated from Atatürk University Faculty of Medicine in 2001. She completed her specialization education at the same university in 2007. Her Specialization Thesis was "Connexin 26 gene studies in non-syndromic hearing loss.". Between 2011 and 2014, Dr.Ocak worked as the Deputy Chief Physician of Abant İzzet Baysal University Faculty of Medicine Hospital and the head of the Genetic Diseases Diagnosis Center. Between 2013 and 2014, she worked at the Center for Genomic Medicine, Saitama Medical University in Japan, on diagnosis and treatment methods of mitochondrial diseases, molecular genetic techniques, and gene therapy. Dr. Ocak, who received the title of Associate Professor of Medical Genetics and Genetic Diseases in 2013, worked as the Director and responsible manager of the Genetic Diseases Diagnosis Center of Kanuni Sultan Süleyman Training and Research Hospital between 2014-2017. Between 2015-2016, she worked on HLA Tissue Typing, Flowcytometry and Transplantation at Dışkapı Yıldırım Beyazıt Training and Research Hospital Transplantation immunology, Tissue Typing and Transplantation Center. Between 2017-2019, she worked as a faculty member at Istanbul Yeni Yüzyıl University Faculty of Medicine Gaziosmanpaşa Hospital, Department of Medical Biology and Genetics and as the Head of the Genetic Diseases Diagnosis Center. Dr. Ocak, who received the Young Researcher Awards from the European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG) in 2009 in Vienna, Austria and in 2016 in Kyoto, Japan, has been involved in many multi-center studies in Japan, Europe and the USA. contributed to the elucidation of the genetic cause of many diseases. She has more than seventy articles published in international refereed journals and many book chapters. Research and interests; clinical genetics, cancer genetics, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, cell culture, microarray, SNParray, aCGH, NGS, epigenetics, sequencing, expression-based studies.