Dr. Rıdvan Seçkin ÖZEN was born in 1966 in Izmir, Türkiye. He received his Medical Degree in 1990 from GATA Gülhane Medical Faculty in Ankara, Türkiye. He obtained his PhD degree in Medical Genetics in a joint program of the Medical Genetics departments of Gülhane Medical Faculty and University of Pittsburgh University. He worked in the GATA Molecular Genetics Lab in Ankara until 2000. After several projects in population genetics, genomics, and biotechnology, and prenatal and postnatal molecular genetics diagnosis, he continued his career specializing in reproductive genetics and the characterization of affected human embryonic stem cell lines. In 2009, he established the Istanbul Genetik Grubu (IGG) in İstanbul as the owner and serves as its Medical and General Director together with the specialized personnel team he organized. Dr. Rıdvan Seçkin ÖZEN works in a collaborative manner internationally by training the personnel of genetic centers and also helped many hospitals and genetic laboratories built their own units or extend their capacities. He is also the Director of Medical Genetics Department of Beykent University Faculty of Medicine in Istanbul since 2019. He founded the Gentestim Biotechnology Company working on cell free DNA establishments and the construction of microfluidics and microchips for several biological applications.