Selin Oncul is a postdoctoral fellow in the Section of Benign Hematology, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. She has a bachelor’s degree in biology (Ankara University, Turkey) and master’s and doctoral degrees in biochemistry (Hacettepe University, Turkey). She has published multiple original research and review articles in the area of cancer, is the first author of a published book chapter on RNA therapeutics, and her reports have been cited by more than 200 articles. She shares a patent on the construction of kojic acid-derivative compounds and their anticancer effects. She was the recipient of a travel award to attend a cancer symposium as a speaker, a silver medal for the patent, a third-place poster prize for a poster she co-created, and a Women in Pharmaceutical Scientists (WIPS) prize. Her current studies focus on immune profiling of the tumor microenvironment in cancer models in mice.