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Duygu Özmadenci is a Turkish research Fellow born in Zonguldak, Turkey, specializing in immunotherapy resistance in preclinical models of ovarian cancer. As of 2019, Özel is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of California San Diego in Los Angeles, in the San Diego Moores Cancer Center.

Özmadenci received her PhD at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, examining the regulation of cell plasticity and pluripotency. Özmadenci received two consecutive national (ARC) fellowships along the way to discovering a novel and physiological mechanism to maintain stem cell potency.

Özmadenci is widely recognized for her contributions to cancer research, stem cells, and cell signaling pathways involving Netrins, FAK, and WNT.

Özel received the Ann and Sol Schreiber Mentored Investigator Award from the Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance (OCRA) in 2020 for her outstanding contributions ovarian cancer research. Özmadenci has appeared on numerous news including Hürriyet Daily News and NTV News

Education

 * 1992 – Galatasaray High School, İstanbul, Turkey
 * 1996 – BSc in Biology, İstanbul University, Turkey
 * 1997 – MSc in Development Biology and Embryology, Université Paris Descartes, France
 * 2002 – PhD in Molecular Biology,, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1y, France

Honors and awards
National Institutes of Health (NIH) UCSD The Cancer Therapeutics Training Program (CT2) Fellowship 2020 honor titleOvarian Cancer Research Alliance Ann and Sol Schreiber Mentored Investigator Award 2020 honor titleSelected Presentation, AACR The Evolving Landscape of Cancer Modeling, San Diego-USA 2020 honor titleSelected Presentation, AACR Advances in Ovarian Cancer Research Meeting, Atlanta-USA 2019 honor titleInvited Speaker, CRCL visiting speaker series, Lyon-France 2018 honor titleARC Fellowship, (Cancer Research Association, France). 2017 honor titleSelected Oral Presentation, French Society for Stem Cell Research, Paris-France 2017 honor titleARC Fellowship, (Cancer Research Association, France) 2016 honor titleSelected Oral Presentation, Lyon Cancer Research Center (CRCL) Symposium, Lyon-France 2016 honor titleSelected Oral Presentation, 6th Dependence Receptor Meeting, Tianjin-China 2015 honor titleSelected Presentation, 5th Dependence Receptor Meeting, Les Menuires-France 2014 honor titleMasters In Biology and Cellular Development ‘très bien’ (high honors, top of class) June 2013 honor titleStudent Liaison, 1st International Cell Death Congress. Izmir-Turkey 2013