Meral Beksac MD

Meral Beksac MD, is a Head in the Department of Hematology at Ankara University, Turkey. Her current administrative position is Director of the Unrelated Donor Registry and the recently FACT/NETCORD accredited Cord Blood Bank. She has been actively involved in investigator initiated or pharma sponsored Phase II-III clinical trials since 1992, initially within the auspices of EORTC-LCG and most recently in collaboration with European Myeloma Network.

She received her medical and postgraduate training mainly in Ankara, Turkey. She has been visiting scientist or clinician in various Institutions including Divisions of Hematology / Bone Marrow Transplantation at the Karolinska Hospital, Sweden (1983-1984), Heidelberg University, Royal Marsden Hospital, University College Hospital and various institutions in USA. Apart from the pre-clinical studies and clinical trials, her field of research is focused on immune-genetics of plasma cell disorders and expansion of HSC or NK cells from cord blood.