Kivanc Birsoy PhD

Kıvanc Birsoy received his B.S degree at Bilkent University, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, ranked 1st in the Faculty of Science. He received his Ph.D. in Jeffrey Friedman’s lab at the Rockefeller University (New York), where he studied molecular and cellular basis for obesity. He then studied cancer metabolism at the Whitehead Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge) as a postdoctoral fellow. In 2015, he joined Rockefeller University as assistant professor and serves as the head of Laboratory of Metabolic Regulation and Genetics. His recent studies have begun addressing how cancer cell metabolism can be exploited for therapeutic purposes. He is a recipient of the Jane Coffin Childs Medical Fund Fellow Award, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Special Fellow Award, Sokol Postdoctoral Award and NIH Career Transition Award. He has authored over 25 publications in journals including Nature, Cell, Science and Nature Genetics, and has co-authored several patents.