Hikmet Geckil is a Turkish academic who received PhD degree in the area of genetic engineering. His current affiliation is with the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Inonu University
Research in Geckils Laboratory is primarily based on the function of Vitreoscilla hemoglobin (VHb), the first prokaryotic hemoglobin. One of the recent endeavors of his laboratory is to understand the role of mTOR signal complex on the aerobic glycolysis of cancer cells also known as Warburg effect.
Institutional website: https://cms.inonu.edu.tr/hikmet.geckil
Personal website: http://hikmet-geckil.weebly.com/