Prof. Tugba Bagci-Onder is a professor at Koç University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, working on molecular mechanisms of therapy response in cancers. Prof. Bagci-Onder graduated from the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Bilkent University, Turkey in 2002. She then earned her Ph.D. degree in Neuroscience at Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts University, Boston, MA in 2008. She pursued her postdoctoral work at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA on the development of tumor-specific therapies in animal models of brain cancer. In 2012, she joined Koç University School of Medicine and established the Brain Cancer Research and Therapy Laboratory. Her work is supported by FP7 Programme-Marie Curie Career Integration Grant, TÜBİTAK, TUSEB, ICGEB, Royal Society-UK and Koç University Research Center for Translational Medicine (KUTTAM). Prof. Bagci-Onder is also a recipient of Barbara Talamo Trainee (2008), UNESCO-L’oreal Women in Science (2013), BAGEP (2014), Sedat Simavi Heath Sciences (2021), International Cell Death Society Rising Women in Science (2022), Eczacıbaşı (2023) and IBG Science Medal (2023) awards. Prof. Bagci-Onder is the Director of Koç University Graduate School of Health Sciences since 2024. She is also the MC member and WG leader for the COST Action “Net4Brain”.