People

Principal Investigator

Safacan Kolemen

PhD, Bilkent University

Postdoc, UC Berkeley

Dr. Kolemen trained as an organic chemist during his PhD at Bilkent University, Turkey and then dived into the field of chemical biology at UC Berkeley, Department of Chemistry while working as a postdoctoral scholar. Before joining to Koç University, he worked at ROKETSAN as a R&D engineer for a short period of time, where he expended his knowledge on polymeric and composite materials. After joining Koç University in 2017, Dr. Kolemen established the “Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology” lab. In his independent career, he is combining his previous expertise to develop new generation tumor selective phototherapy drugs for cancer treatment and in vivo bio-imaging agents for cancer diagnosis.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr. Hande Gündüz

Dr. Hamdiye Yadigar Ece

Graduate Students

Musa Dırak

PhD Student

BSc ITU

Müşerref Cansu Yenici

PhD Student

BSc ITU

Kübra Durgun

PhD Student

BSc METU, MSc Ankara Uni

Haluk Samet Koçak

PhD Student

BSc KGT, MSc KGT

Ayça Saymaz

MSc Student

BSc IZTECH

Berkan Bozkurt

Visiting MSc Student

BSc Koç

Undergraduate Students

Sarp Emre Turan

BSc

Koç ’24

Mina Mustafazade

BSc

Koç ’24

Ayça Melis Keskin

BSc

Koç ’24

Mascot

Rita

Alumni


Hümeyra Kaanoğlu, 2020 – PhD Student, Sancar Lab; University of North Carolina

Begüm Mestçioğlu, 2020 – R&D Assistant Specialist, Organik Kimya Inc.

Çağrı Özsan, 2021 – PhD Student, Frei Lab; University of Bern

Büşra Aslan, 2021 – R&D Specialist, Gen İlaç Inc.

Sultan Çetin, 2021 – PhD Student, Ceroni Lab; Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna

Berkan Bozkurt, 2021 – MSc Student, Neuroscience, Stress, Mood, and Cognition Lab /w KolemenLab; Koc University

Eda Kılıç, 2022 – PhD Student, Pratt Lab; University of Ottawa

Eda Erbil, 2022 – MSc Student; Karolinska Institute

Zeynep Kılcan, 2022 – MSc Student; Heidelberg University

Toghrul Almammadov, 2022 – Post-doctoral Researcher, Juríček Lab; University of Zurich

Dr. Aatif Ijaz, 2023

Mehmet Akif Aktaş, 2024

Ceren Ünver, 2024