Prof. M. Cengiz YAKICIER is a graduate of İstanbul University Cerrahpaşa Medical School. He completed his residency at Lyon I University Medical School, Department of Nuclear Medicine. He did PhD in molecular biology and genetics from University Lyon. He worked as a post doc at the Massachusettes General Hospital, Harvard, INSERM and subsequently in Bilkent as an assistant professor. He joined Dep. of Medical Biology at ACIBADEM University as Associate Professor, also responsible for the ACIBADEM Genetic Diagnosis Center. He was appointed as founder Dean of ACIBADEM University Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He was head of the ACIBADEM molecular pathology laboratory. He founded NPG AQUARIUS Genomics which performs genomic profiling and monitoring tests on cancer patients.