Ayca Bal-Ozturk is an Associate Professor at Istinye University, Faculty of Pharmacy. She also holds a faculty appointment at Istinye University Research and Application Center for Stem Cell and Tissue Engineering. Awarded with The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, she joined Harvard Medical School as a postdoctoral research fellow. Her research interests mainly focus on nano-structured smart biomaterials. She is the co-founder of AdBioink Biosystem Technology Corp.