Mehmet Tosun

Dr. Mehmet Tosun is a physician-scientist with over 15 years of experience in clinical trials and research endeavors. He is an adjunct faculty member in the Biotechnology Program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He served asthe Director of Research to develop mRNA-based cell therapy for autoimmune diseases, rare disease and cancers in a clinical-stage biotechnology company in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

He worked as a Project Scientist in tissue engineering group to develop biomaterials for the repair of visceral hollow organs at University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine. He joined the team to identify the systems-level machinery governing vertebral segmentation during embryonic development at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Genetics. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics at Texas Children Hospital. He specifically focused on neuronal stem cells resides in hippocampus to explain the adult neurogenesis mechanism. He developed a unique method to characterize the complex lipid features of the different parts of the brain. He has expertise in clinical drug development, translational clinical research, immunotherapy, and clinical data monitoring.