Assoc. Prof. Yuksel Cetin, got her PhD on toxicolgy from Toxicology Center for Environmental Toxicology, The Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA. She worked as postdoctoral researcher on FP 6 PULMONET Marie Curie Project - Pathogenesis of Pulmonary Disease at the European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Health and Consumer Protection, In Vitro Methods Unit/ECVAM, Ispra/Italy for 3 years. She is a senior researcher at the TUBITAK MAM Life Sciences, Medical Biotechnology Unit and her research is mainly focused on in vitro - in vivo characterization of novel drugs, vaccines, biomaterials, nanoparticles, and xenobiotics to evaluate their molecular mechanism and pathogenicity at molecular, cellular and organ levels. Her research is involved in development of 3D in vitro lung modelling with dynamic microenvironment as alternatives to animal testing to be used for screening and predicting response to pulmonary pathogens and anti-cancer drugs and other toxicological features. Recently, her research projects in the fields of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine have focused on topics such as cartilage regeneration, the development of cardiac patches, and the development of 3D wound healing dressings. She has been an advisor for four Master's theses in Molekular Biology and Genetics and one doctoral dissertation in Dentistry. She has been teaching Toxicology course in the doctoral program at the Gebze Technical University.