Dr. Erşen Kavak
Genomize Inc. Founder/CEO
Adjunct Faculty, Bogazici University Molecular Biology and Genetics Department
Genetics Department
Dr. Ersen Kavak is an entrepreneur of genomics and a software enthusiast. He is the founder of Genomize Inc. and an adjunct faculty member at Bogazici University. He completed his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Genetics at Bogazici University in 2007 and worked at the Ludwig. Institute for Cancer Research, Karolinska Institute, as a Postdoctoral Researcher after that.
He published multiple papers on genomic regulation in cancer cells in prestigious journals such as Nature and Nucleic Acid Research. After his time in Karolinska, he founded Genomize, Inc. In 2013 to create a solution that would allow physicians to diagnose patients with rare diseases quickly and reliably. So far, his vision helped physicians to diagnose more than 240.000 patients in more than 25 countries. He also has been teaching Python at Bogazici University for molecular biology students since 2014 and coaching next-generation bioinformaticians.
