[1] Uzbay graduated from Ünye High School and received his bachelor's degree in the Faculty of Pharmacy from Istanbul University in 1982.
In 1999, he won a scholarship and worked as a research assistant in the department of Toxicology in the Faculty of Pharmaceutics in Cagliari University in Italy.
Today he is still working as the Head of the Departments of Molecular Biology and Genetics and Neuroscience in Üsküdar University, as well as the director of Neuropsychopharmacology Research and Application Center.
[3][4] Uzbay patented three molecules which are candidate drugs to the generation of schizophrenia disorder, its diagnosis and treatment.
[5] His work in this field have been honoured by the Turkish Armed Forces by the New Inventions Strip Badge and the Headquarters Outstanding Service Award.