NAZIFE DIDEM KANSIZ
Summary
Computational Chemist with 4 years of experience to design and develop drugs and vaccines through docking and molecular dynamic simulation, analysis, synthesis processes with high performance computing and specific software programs. Specialized in antisense peptide design which is a type of de-novo peptide design. Also has experience teaching computer aided drug design with knowledge of wet-lab chemistry.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Board Treasurer
Turkish Student Association at New Jersey Institute of Technology
01.2024 - Current
Computational Chemist, IT
The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) Material Institute
08.2021 - 10.2023
- Design and development of radionuclide-labeled molecules targeting the tumor Micro- environment with high selectivity for use in pet imaging systems
- Docking and Simulation of Folate Receptor Alpha and PD-L1 proteins for Cancer Imaging "Docking and Molecular Dynamics Simulation" for Folate receptor and PD-L1 protein for Cancer Imaging, small peptides with high binding affinities suitable for drugs in treatments; design, discovery, analysis, synthesis, purification and sending to in vivo studies.
- CT-1 and AFP protein( Heart and Liver cancer) / Docking and Molecular Dynamics Simulations, design and development through high performance computing
- Led to group of 25 undergraduate student for docking and molecular dynamic simulations
- ‘Nimesulide derivative drug design by docking and simulation processes’ in collaboration with Health Institutes of Turkey
- In preparation process articles; (Yilmaz O., Aranci Ciftci K., Kansiz N.D., Karakas N., Suslu E., Gulyuz S., Alpturk O., Baday S. “Design, synthesis and evaluation of novel therapeutic peptides for cancer immunotherapy” in preparation. Demirtas Z., Gulyuz S., Kansiz N.D., Celikbas S., Kalayci M.E., Arslan A., Erkus H., Cetinel S., Gozuacik. D., Baday S., Yilmaz O., “Development of peptide-based probes for Early Detection of Liver Cancer” in preparation.).
Computational Chemist , IT
Cambridge University collabration with Istanbul Technical University
09.2021 - 09.2022
- Development of chondroitin competitive Sulfotransferase enzyme inhibitors for the treatment of Alzheimer Disease with Computer Aided Drug Design
Computational Chemist, R&D
BioChemistry&BioOrganic Research Group Member at ITU (Voluntary)
10.2020 - 01.2022
- Docking and Simulation of Tat Protein to cure HIV Disease, RMSD analysis, entropy, free energy and MMBGSA calculation
- De novo peptide design
- Antisense peptide design
- Sequence Alignment
Data Scientist/ Business Development Analyst Internship, IT
Jotun Paints( Jotun Group)
09.2020 - 10.2020
- Cold Emailing with customers for problem solving in sales and marketing department with the aim of relationship building and critical thinking, and managing competing demand
- Preparing power point presentations by SWOT analysis, Tableau, Porter’s Five Forces, Formatting Logical and Statistical functions
Chemist / Quality Control Laboratory , R&D
Santa Farma Pharmaceuticals
01.2020 - 02.2020
- Making Pharmacology Literature review, HPLC-GC analysis, IR, durability and fragility test, moisture content, disruption, dissolution, intensity testes
- As well as, using polarimeter, spectrophotometer to control quality of capsule and the liquid form of drugs
Education
Master of Science in Pharmaceutical Chemistry -
New Jersey Institute of Technology
12.2025
Bachelor of Science Degree -
Istanbul Technical University
02.2022
Skills
- Computer Aided Drug Design
Certification
- Virtual Screening and Ligand Design using Small-Molecule Drug Discovery Suite- Schrödinger
- Prescription Drug Regulation, Cost, and Access: Current Controversies in Context by HarvardX
- FirstGenU Career Institute: Leadership Skills
- FirstGenU Career Institute: Job Search Skills
- Certificate of appreciation to support Corporate Accreditation Program for ITU - Representative student for Council of Higher Education at Istanbul Technical University
- Bayer Science Content
- Global Opportunities in Business & Investment '17
- Marketing and Finance Summit '16
- CHRO Digital Talent Summit
- Artifical Intelligence Applications
- ITU KIMBIS'21
Languages
English
Native/ Bilingual
Turkish
Native/ Bilingual
german
Limited
Timeline
Board Treasurer
Turkish Student Association at New Jersey Institute of Technology
01.2024 - Current
Computational Chemist , IT
Cambridge University collabration with Istanbul Technical University
09.2021 - 09.2022
Computational Chemist, IT
The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) Material Institute
08.2021 - 10.2023
Computational Chemist, R&D
BioChemistry&BioOrganic Research Group Member at ITU (Voluntary)
10.2020 - 01.2022
Data Scientist/ Business Development Analyst Internship, IT
Jotun Paints( Jotun Group)
09.2020 - 10.2020
Chemist / Quality Control Laboratory , R&D
Santa Farma Pharmaceuticals
01.2020 - 02.2020
Master of Science in Pharmaceutical Chemistry -
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science Degree -
Istanbul Technical University
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