Yiğitcan Sümbelli
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RESEARCH PROFILE
YiÄŸit is focused on 3D biofabrication of tissue mimetics. Organoids are being used to fabricate large-scale structures, and vascularization is the primary topic in his project. Artificial cells, functional and interactive cell-sized spherical reaction vessels, are another topic of interest in engineering such tissue-mimicking structures, in which they are embedded in the biofabrication process to promote cellular function.
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Yiğitcan Sümbelli (Istanbul, 1990) received his MSc in Biochemistry from Anadolu University in 2019. He developed a conductive natural biomaterial ink combination that can be used for 3D bioprinting of neural conduits to help and/or induce neural regeneration. His research was conducted under the supervisions of Prof. Sibel Emir Diltemiz and Prof. Arzu Ersöz. During an internship at Amsterdam UMC in 2018, he studied the effect of decellularized extracellular matrix addition on tissue regeneration with a 3D bioprinter under the supervision of Dr. Dafydd O. Visscher, MD in Prof. Paul van Zuijlen, MD's group. In 2021, he conducted another research stay in Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Germany, and he studied about bottom-up assembly of synthetic cells in Dr. Kerstin Göpfrich's group.
As of February 2022, he joined Prof. Jan van Hest's research group as a PhD candidate. YiÄŸit's current research is shaped around 3D bioprinting of artificial cells theme.
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