Selin Tüzüner
DPhil Student
Selin is a third-year DPhil student in the Simões group, fully funded by the British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence (BHF CRE) and the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (DPAG). Her research focuses on developing a human immune-cardiac organoid model to investigate the role of primitive macrophages in coronary vessel formation, addressing the lack of human-relevant systems for studying immune-vascular interactions during heart development.
Before her DPhil, Selin completed a MSc in Medical Biotechnology at the Technical University of Berlin, where she carried out her master’s project in the Simões group on cardiac regeneration in zebrafish, and previously undertook a research internship in the Hebrok group at UCSF, working on disease-related mechanisms underlying diabetes. She obtained her BSc in Biotechnology from the Technical University of Berlin and worked as a student assistant at the 3D bioprinting startup Cellbricks GmbH, where her bachelor’s thesis focused on osteoclast differentiation in 2D culture and 3D-bioprinted bone models.