Ayça Bal-Öztürk, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Istinye University, Istanbul, Türkiye and Director of the Stem Cell and Tissue Engineering Research and Application Center (ISUKOK). She holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and completed post-doctoral research in tissue engineering at Harvard University. Her expertise includes biomaterials, tissue adhesives, micro/nanoscale biomaterials, and tissue engineering.