Gizem Ozturk
GRADUATE STUDENT
B.S. 2022: University of Arizona
gozturk2[at]illinois.edu
Gizem grew up in Istanbul, Turkey. She moved to the United States to pursue her B.S. in Chemistry at the University of Arizona. After graduating, she worked in Professor Virginia Lee’s Lab at the University of Pennsylvania, focusing on drug development for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) by modulating TAM receptor activity and neuroinflammation. Gizem joined van der Donk group in the Fall of 2024.