Dr Ezgi Oner
Co-Investigator | Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at JHU
Dr. Ezgi Oner is a postdoctoral research fellow at Trinity College Dublin. She earned her PhD in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology from Ege University and Marmara University in 2020. During her doctoral studies, she focused on developing lipid nanoparticles for delivering siRNA to tumor cells and evaluated their safety and efficacy in 2D and 3D prostate cancer models.
She completed the latter part of her thesis under the guidance of Prof. Stephen Finn at TTMI with a scholarship from TUBITAK. During her fellowship, she gained considerable experience in cancer stem cell research, particularly in drug-resistant prostate cancer cell lines, to explore novel tumor markers. In 2020, she started a postdoctoral faculty position at Izmir Katip Celebi University, which involved both teaching and research.
She participated in a project to develop novel carriers for cyclic dinucleotides as immunotherapeutics to target the tumor microenvironment in vivo in glioblastoma models in 2021.
Building on these experiences, she joined Dr. Kathy Gately's team at Thoracic Oncology Research Group in TTMI in 2022 as a postdoctoral research fellow to improve liquid biopsy applications in lung cancer. Additionally, she co-leads a project supported by the TTMI Collaborative Pilot Study Award to develop patient-derived organoids of lung cancer using bioprinting technology.