Her research focuses on nanotechnology and micro-technology applications on current world-threatening health issues, like cancer and antibiotic resistance.
[2] In 2003, she started her undergraduate studies at the Middle East Technical University, specializing in Molecular Biology and Genetics.
Later on, she obtained a Fulbright scholarship and moved to the United States to pursue higher education, achieving a Masters in Engineering from Boston University in 2009, and receiving a Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering from Brown University in May 2013.
[4] In 2015, she has been recognized among the "Top 35 Innovators Under 35" (TR35), as a pioneer in biotechnology and medicine, by MIT Technology Review Magazine.
Her work focuses on developing low-cost nanotechnology tools that can be used for the diagnose and treatment of diseases, like for instance a fast method for detecting the physical features of a cell, by having them levitate in a magnetic field, this being able to measure in a shorter period of time how a microbe responds to a certain drug,[1] and making it possible to differentiate cancerous cells from healthy ones.