Dilara Yilmaz

Dilara received her undergraduate degree in Molecular Biology and Genetics from Bilkent University, Turkey in 2015. She studied how different cancer types rewire their metabolism to adapt to the nutrient-deprived environments in the laboratory of David Sabatini at the Whitehead Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) during her Bachelor's thesis.  She received her Master of Science degree in Regenerative Biology and Medicine program from TU Dresden in 2017 and did her Master's thesis in Leonard Zon's lab at Harvard Stem Cell Institute working on "Clonal Dynamics in Native vs Malignant Hematopoiesis".