Uğur Özbek graduated from Istanbul University, Cerrahpaşa Medical Faculty, in 1986. He received a PhD degree in Cancer Genetics at the Oncology Institute, Istanbul University, in 1995. He also received a Medical Genetics Specialization at the same University in 2006. He worked as a faculty member at Istanbul University Institute of Experimental Medicine, Genetics Department between 1994-2016. He worked at Istanbul Acıbadem University, School of Medicine as director of the Health Sciences Institute and chair of the Medical Genetics Department between 2016-2023. In 2017 he established, first in kind, the Center for Rare and Undiagnosed Diseases at Acibadem University-ACURARE. In August 2023, he was appointed to serve as Chair of the Horizon2020-supported ERAChair project RAREBOOST at Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Center-IBG. His research interests include delineating the genetics and molecular biological mechanisms underlying childhood and adult hereditary cancers/haematological malignancies and rare/undiagnosed diseases.