Short biography
Elvan graduated as valedictorian in her native Turkey in 2008. She completed her PhD training at the Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute (2008-2012) on cell division, followed by postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA (2013-2016) on cytoplasmic organisation. In 2017, she established her laboratory at CRG, Barcelona. Elvan has received numerous honours, including two consecutive European Research Council Grants (Starting in 2017 and Consolidator in 2022), an EMBO Young Investigator Award in 2021, a Barcelona city prize (2022), a Vallee Scholar Award (2023), and both the Sabadell Biomedical Research Award and the EMBO Gold Medal in 2024.
Her research focuses on the strategies and mechanisms that allow oocytes to evade ageing for decades, and why these strategies eventually fail with advanced maternal age.
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