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Istanbul, Turkey Turkey
Occupation
Yeditepe University
Industry
Medical / Health Care / Pharmaceuticals
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Dr. Kocabas received his B.S. in Molecular Biology and Genetics from Orta Doğu Technical University and his Ph.D. in Genetics and Development from University of Texas Southwestern (UTSW) Medical Center at Dallas. He developed a metabolic approach to isolate stem cells from bone marrow and heart, which lead him to discover unique metabolic profile of mouse hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) (published in Cell Stem Cells as co-first author), human HSCs, glycolytic cardiac progenitors (GCPs) and their respective cardiac hypoxic niche. In addition, his studies using novel mouse heart regeneration model (published in Science) lead to discovery of Meis1 that regulates the heart’s ability to regene...
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