Dr. Perinur Bozaykut-Eker graduated from Marmara University with a BS degree in Biological Sciences and pursued her MSc and PhD degrees in Medical Biochemistry at Marmara University. During her MSc studies, she took part as visiting researcher in King’s College London at Cardiovascular Division. Later, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School & Genetics Division where her research involved transcriptomics analysis of aging & lifespan extension and targeted drug repurposing. Currently, Dr. Perinur Bozaykut Eker is working as an Associate Professor at Acibadem University. Her research primarily revolves around identifying distinctive interventions through the utilization of long-lived models and applying them to short-lived models or to enhance human healthspan. Dr Bozaykut-Eker has received several awards from Physiological Society, SFRR-Europe, and the Turkish Biochemistry Society so far. In 2022, she has been elected as the Turkey president of the "International Society on Aging and Disease".