60969-Kacar, Sedat

Sedat Kacar, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow in Medicine

Associate Professor (equivalent title, Türkiye)

Email
skacar@iu.edu
Address
R3 C445
PULM
Indianapolis, IN 46202
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Bio

Dr. Sedat Kacar earned his bachelor's degree in Molecular Biology and Genetics, where he also gained practical experience working in Forensic Science for two years, developing skills in DNA analysis and molecular diagnostics. Motivated by a deeper interest in human biology, he pursued graduate education in Histology and Embryology, obtaining both his master's and Ph.D. degrees.

Throughout eight years of lecturing and research in Histology, Dr. Kacar developed a strong foundation in tissue structure and cellular organization, which now enables him to analyze single-cell and spatial transcriptomics data from any organ in a robust and biologically meaningful way.

Since 2021, he has been working intensively on single-cell RNA sequencing and spatial transcriptomics as a Bioinformatics Scientist (post-doctoral researcher) at Indiana University School of Medicine, specializing in pulmonary-associated diseases such as pulmonary hypertension, hypoxia, and sickle cell disease. With over a decade of experience bridging wet lab techniques and computational biology, he focuses on uncovering novel biological insights from high-dimensional data.

Dr. Kacar is passionate about integrating different omics data, including spatial and single-cell transcriptomics, to advance the understanding of tissue architecture, vascular remodeling, and cellular heterogeneity in disease models. He aspires to map all organs at single-cell resolution and integrate multiple omics layers to build comprehensive, organ-wide molecular atlases.

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