Dr. Ozgul Gok

Dr. Ozgul Gok is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Acibadem Mehmet Ali Aydinlar University, Istanbul, Turkey. She graduated from Boğaziçi University with a double major in Chemistry (2006) and Molecular Biology and Genetics (2007), and completed her M.Sc. (2010) and Ph.D. (2014) programs in Chemistry on “targeted drug delivery systems”. During this time, she worked as a short-term researcher in the Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen (Norway) and the Department of Bioengineering, University of Utah (USA). Her Ph.D. thesis on the development of dendritic and polymeric drug delivery systems for cancer treatment was awarded the Boğaziçi University BAP best Ph.D. thesis award. She continued her post-doctoral studies at the Nanomedicine Center at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (USA) for about two years on dendritic drug delivery systems for the treatment of various neurodegenerative diseases. Her research interests include biocompatible and biodegradable materials, smart drug delivery systems, the development of functional polymeric skeletal structures for tissue engineering, implant coatings and three-dimensional biomaterial printing techniques.