Biography
Dr. Fatih Inci is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Materials Science and Nanotechnology, Bilkent University – UNAM. Before his current role, Dr. Inci was working as a research scientist at the Department of Radiology, Canary Center at Stanford for Cancer Early Detection, Stanford University School of Medicine (Palo Alto, CA) (2016-2019), where he was leading and working with a group of researchers to develop micro- and nano-technologies for biomedical and bioengineering applications. Dr. Inci completed his postdoctoral training at Stanford University School of Medicine (2014-2016) and Harvard Medical School-Brigham & Women’s Hospital (BWH) (Boston, MA) (2013-2014). He received his Ph.D. degree at the Department of Molecular Biology-Genetics & Biotechnology from Istanbul Technical University (Turkey) in 2013. During his doctoral studies, he was appointed as a visiting scientist at School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South Wales; and Institute for Nanoscale Technology, University of Technology Sydney (Sydney, NSW, Australia) in 2010. In addition, he worked as a research scholar at Harvard Medical School-BWH and Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – Health Sciences and Technology (Boston, MA) (2011-2012). Dr. Inci holds a Science Baccalaureate Degree (B.Sc.) from the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Istanbul University (Turkey), and he also studied as an Erasmus/Socrates Exchange student at the Department of Biology, University of Groningen (Netherlands).
Dr. Inci has authored papers in interdisciplinary journals, including PNAS, ACS Nano, Advanced Science, Light: Science & Applications, Applied Materials Today, Small, Lab on a chip, Scientific Reports, and Biomacromolecules. He also reviewed the literature comprehensively and published papers in Chemical Reviews, Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, Biotechnology Advances, Annual Review of Medicine, Chemical Society Reviews, Materials Today, and Trends in Biotechnology. Besides his journal publications, he has contributed to the publication of 7 book chapters (including 3 chapters in press) and 3 editorial/perspective papers. He is also editing 3 scientific books in Springer Press and World Scientific. He has also 6 U.S. and International patents on biosensing, medical diagnostics, and micro/nano-scale technologies. Some of them have already been licensed by companies to produce commercial products (CSI-QTM and NGDETM).
In addition, many of his papers were featured on the cover of Advanced Science (2 covers), Small, and Chemical Society Reviews journals and have been also highlighted in National Institutes of Health (NIH)–National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, Science AAAS, Nature Medicine, American Institute of Physics, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Newsweek, Popular Science, The London Economic, Boston University, BWH, Stanford University, Johns Hopkins, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Florida Atlantic University, Nova Southeastern University, and Dartmouth University. Dr. Inci has also chaired sessions and given invited talks at national and international conferences (50+) around the world, ranging in geography from Barcelona to Osaka, Sydney to Boston, Rio de Janeiro to San Diego, and Istanbul to San Francisco.
In respect of teaching, Dr. Inci has mentored 32 trainees (junior postdoctoral fellows, medical, graduate, undergraduate, and high school students). Many of my trainees have been admitted to Harvard, MIT, University of California San Diego (UCSD), UC-Berkeley, UC-Davis, California Institute of Technology, Yale University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, New York University, and University of Antwerp. They have also been awarded prestigious scholarships at these institutions.
Dr. Inci has also been awarded various scholarships and grants from Turkey Scientific and Technological Research Society (TUBITAK), Canary Center at Stanford with Partnership of OHSU Knight Cancer Institute and Cancer Research UK, European Molecular Biology Organization-European Science Foundation, American Chemical Society, Istanbul University, and Istanbul Technical University. His research along with his collaborators were awarded Biomedical Research Institute Translatable Technologies & Care Innovation Award and BRIght Future Prize from Harvard-BWH; and 3 seed grants from Canary Center and The Precision Health and Integrated Diagnostics Center (PHIND) at Stanford.
Selected Honors, Prizes and Awards
| Date | Honor/Award – Organization, and Description |
| 2020 2023 | TÜBİTAK 2232 International Fellowship for Outstanding Researchers Program |
| 2019 | Best Paper Award – The 2nd Eurasia Biochemical Approaches & Technologies Congress (EBAT), Antalya, Turkey |
| 2019 | Pilot Grant (Finalist) – Stanford Medicine Spectrum, Palo Alto, CA |
| 2019 | Emerging Leader Award (Finalist) – The Bay Area Lyme Foundation |
| 2018 | Travel Award for World Congress on Biosensors – U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF ) |
| 2018 | Travel Grant for The Early Detection of Cancer Conference – Canary Center at Stanford with Partnership of OHSU Knight Cancer Institute and Cancer Research United Kingdom (UK) |
| 2018 | Nominated Fellow – United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI) |
| 2014 | Honorarium for Publication (along with Drs. Demirci and Tokel) – American Chemical Society, Chemical Society Reviews |
| 2014 2016 | Postdoctoral Research Fellowship – Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA |
| 2014 | Best Paper Award – XXVII SIBGRAPI Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| 2014 | Project Award at New Therapy Commercialization Grants Program (along with Drs. Demirci and Schachter) – American Epilepsy Foundation |
| 2013 | Summa Cum Laude – Istanbul Technical University, Turkey |
| 2013 2014 | Postdoctoral Research Fellowship – Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA |
| 2013 | Bright Futures Award (along with Drs. Demirci and Schachter) – Brigham Research Institute, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA |
| 2012 | Translatable Technologies & Care Innovation Award (along with Drs. Demirci, Tokel, and Wang) – Biomedical Research Institute, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA |
| 2011 2012 | Research Scholar Sponsorship – Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA |
| 2011 | Travel Grant – European Science Foundation, European Molecular Biology Organization |
| 2010 2011 | Scientific Travel Grants – Istanbul Technical University |
| 2007 2012 | TÜBİTAK 2211 National Ph.D. Fellowship Program |
| 2007 | Ph.D. Education (the first bachelor student, who was selected to start Ph.D. directly from undergraduate degree) – Istanbul Technical University, Molecular Biology-Genetics and Biotechnology, Istanbul, Turkey |
| 2007 | Magna Cum Laude – Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey |
| 2005 2006 | Erasmus/Sokrates Scholarship in University of Groningen, Netherlands – European Commission |
| 2003 2007 | Rector’s Scholarship for Undergraduate Students with Honor Degree (only one student per year) – Istanbul University, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Istanbul, Turkey |
| 2003 | Valedictorian – Umraniye High School (a.k.a. Umraniye Merkez Anatolian School) |
Editorial Activities
Ad hoc Reviewer in the Following Journals (in Alphabetical Order)
| ACS Sensors | Analyst |
| Analytica Chimica Acta | Analytical Methods |
| Applied Sciences | Bioconjugate Chemistry |
| Biofabrication | Biomedical Engineering -Applications: Basis and Communications (BME) |
| Biomedical Optics Express | Cancer Studies and Molecular Medicine – Open Journal |
| Chemical Communications | Chemosensors |
| Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics | Global Journal of Health Science (GJHS) |
| Heliyon | Infection and Drug Resistance |
| International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology | International Journal of Nanomedicine |
| Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering | Journal of Molecular Recognition |
| Materials Research Express | Nature Scientific Reports |
| PLos One | Process Biochemistry |
| Sensors | Sensors & Actuators: B. Chemical |
| SM Journal of Clinical and Medical Imaging | RSC Advances |
| Talanta | The Journal of Physical Chemistry |
| Biotechnology Progress | Electroanalysis |
Selected Editorial Roles
| 2019 | Editorial Board Member, Izmir Democracy University Natural and Applied Sciences Journal (IDUNAS) |
| 2019 | Editorial Board Member, Hacettepe Journal of Biology and Chemistry |
| 2019 | Guest Editor – Special Issue, “Novel Diagnostic Technologies and Devices” – Diagnostics |
| 2019 | Advisory Board Member, Sci |
| 2019 2020 | Guest Editor – Special Issue, “Advances in Electrochemical Sensing Modality in Cancer Research” – Chemosensors |
| 2018 | Guest Editor – Editorial Special Issue, “Feature Papers: State-of-the-Art Biosensors Technology 2018” – Biosensors |
| 2018 | Editorial Board Member, Open Access Journal of Oncology (OAJOY) |
| 2018 | Editorial Board Member, OA Journal of Radiology |
| 2018 | Editorial Board Member, Biosensors |
| 2018 | Editor, Current Medicine – Oncology |
| 2017 | Editorial Board Member, Chemosensors |
| 2017 | Editorial Board Member, Diagnostics |
| 2017 | Guest Editor – Special Issue, “Novel Biosensing Platforms for Disease Diagnosis: Translation of Lab-based Technologies into Clinical Settings” – Biosensors |
| 2017 2019 | Associate Editor in Chief, Advanced Health Care Technologies |
| 2016 | Editorial Board Member, Scientific Reports-Nature Publishing Group |