Fulya Taylan

Fulya Taylan

Research Specialist | Docent
Visiting address: Karolinska Institutet, BioClinicum J10:20, Visionsgatan 4, 17164 Solna
Postal address: K1 Molekylär medicin och kirurgi, K1 MMK Sällsynta diagnoser, 171 76 Stockholm

About me

  • Fulya Taylan is a docent in medical genetics at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. She also serves as 

  • the coordinator for the precision medicine and diagnostics research area in 
  • the Data-driven Life Science (DDLS) initiative. Additionally, she chairs the 
  • working group for harmonization of bioinformatics pipelines for somatic 
  • variant analysis in the Genomic Medicine Sweden (GMS) initiative, coordinates 
  • the diagnostic working group in the Undiagnosed Disease Network International 
  • (UDNI), and the Childhood Cancer Predisposition (ChiCaP) project within the 
  • GMS initiative.

     

  • Her research focuses on understanding the cancer predisposition to childhood cancers and identifying novel disease-causing genes in patients with rare 

  • undiagnosed diseases. Prior to her work at Karolinska Institutet, Taylan was 
  • a postdoctoral researcher at SciLifeLab in Stockholm. There, she analyzed 
  • exome sequencing data and collaborated on several projects to identify novel 
  • disease-causing genes. Taylan earned her Doctor of Philosophy in Molecular 
  • Biology and Genetics from Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey.

Research

  • Her research covers various areas in the medical field. She focuses on the genetic predisposition to cancer in children, aiming to understand why some children are more susceptible to developing cancer. Additionally, she tackles undiagnosed diseases, working to find the genetic causes of these conditions that often leave patients and their families without answers. Furthermore, her work investigates molecular mechanisms behind various rare conditions, aiming to provide a deeper understanding of how these diseases operate at a cellular level.

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Employments

  • Research Specialist, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, 2022-
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, 2016-2020
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, 2012-2016

Degrees and Education

  • Docent, Karolinska Institutet, 2022

Supervisor

  • Benedicte Bang
  • Alice Costantini
  • Dominyka Batkovskyte
  • Sofia Frisk, Studies of Genetic Mosaicism in Rare Diseases
  • Carolina Maya Gonzalez

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