Global Challenge: Health
Being a part of GLASS, and seeing the world through its several windows, however, will prepare me to be the person who I aspire to become: an impactful, socially responsible, global citizen.
Bio:
Ece is set to graduate from NYU with a degree in Biomolecular Science and a minor in Computer Science in May 2025. Growing up in Istanbul and participating in many international summer camps across the globe, she was always fond of making connections that surpassed geographical boundaries. With a passion to bring academic rigor to the biotechnology field and a global curiosity she routinely explores, becoming a member of GLASS was an easy decision for her.
Through the program she spent a semester abroad in NYU Abu Dhabi, attended numerous conferences, worked in multiple research labs from Istanbul to New York, organized a fundraiser, taught high school students how to be innovators, won multiple awards for her research videos at the NYU Tandon Undergraduate Summer Research Program, and many more.
With a keen interest in studying immunotherapies for Alzheimer’s Disease, she will be continuing her education with a MS in Biotechnology at Tandon starting the Fall of 2025, writing her thesis under the supervision of Dr. David Truong. In her free time, she loves to work on her creative side with the media ranging from the strings of her guitar, lens of her camera, tip of her charcoal pencils, or the flavors in her kitchen.