Nursu Erdogan
PhD Student (Marie Skłodowska Curie Action)
I got my bachelor’ and master’ degrees both in Biomedical Engineering at Izmir Katip Celebi University (IKCU). I participated Biomaterial and Tissue Engineering Laboratory at IKCU in 2015 and attained skills including electrospinning, solid phase peptide synthesis, in vitro 2D cell culture and characterization methods. During my bachelor’s study, I had opportunity to join ERASMUS education program at Oulu University in Finland and after completed it I had internship in Mediracer® about diagnostic tool for assessment of peripheral neuropathies. Then, I experienced more industrial internships about microfluidic chips in KOEK Biotechnology and orthopaedics implants in SAYAN Orthopaedics in Türkiye. I completed my bachelor's study in 2018 by presenting thesis entitled “Effect of Surface Modification with Various Number of Glutamic Acid Sequences on Nanofibers’ Biomineralization, Cell Adherence and Viability” under supervision of Assoc. Prof. Ozan KARAMAN. In my master education, I reunited my skills in the fields of designing novel local drug delivery and controlled drug delivery systems with mesoporous silica nanoparticles and nanofibers in the Nanomedicine and Biomaterials Laboratory at IKCU under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Didem ŞEN KARAMAN. I defended my master thesis in 2021 which was entitled as “Development of Nanoparticle Integrated Local Drug Delivery System for Tissue Regeneration”. Currently, I am studying as a PhD fellow in NanoReMedi project from Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Networks at the University of Pavia under the supervision of Prof. Ida GENTA and Dr. Enrica CHIESA. My aims are to manufacture composite small-caliber electrospun vascular grafts, incorporate them with peptides for regenerative purposes and obtain their morphological, mechanical, physical-chemical, and biological characterization.