Prof. Dr. Aysel Özpınar is a distinguished academic and researcher in the field of biochemistry and molecular biology, currently serving as a professor at Acıbadem Mehmet Ali Aydınlar University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Basic Sciences, where she has been an active faculty member since 2008 and continues to hold important administrative roles, including Head of the Department of Basic Sciences and Head of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Graduate School of Health Sciences. She completed her undergraduate and postgraduate education in biochemistry at Istanbul University between 1976 and 1981, followed by her doctoral degree at the Institute of Health Sciences of the same university between 1982 and 1986. She further strengthened her academic background with a postdoctoral fellowship in Switzerland from 1986 to 1988.She served as a professor at Istanbul University from 1996 to 2003 and later at the University of California, Davis, between 2003 and 2008. She has supervised a substantial number of master’s and doctoral theses, particularly in the fields of metabolomics, proteomics, cancer biology, and endocrine disorders. Her research focuses on translational biochemistry, with a particular emphasis on omics technologies, thyroid diseases, cancer metabolism, and biomarker discovery. She has been recognized with academic awards, including an award from the National Proteomics Congress.