Alper Kucukural, PhD

Alper Kucukural, PhD has extensive experience in bioinformatics. Alper currently serves as the Chief Technology Officer for Via Scientific, Inc. Prior to this, they served as an Associate Professor, Co-director of Bioinformatics Core, and Associate Professor at Program in Molecular Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Alper also worked there as a Bioinformatician III, responsible for designing and implementing bioinformatics analysis pipelines. Previously, they held positions as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Computational Drug Design at the University of Kansas, and as a PhD student in Biological Sciences and Bioengineering at Sabanci University. Alper also served as a Research Fellow at Bologna University and CINECA, where they worked on finding similar parts of proteins for function annotation using parallel sub-graph matching algorithms.

Alper Kucukural, PhD, earned a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics Engineering and a Master's degree in Systems Analysis from Istanbul Technical University. Alper then pursued a PhD in Biological Sciences and Bioengineering from Sabanci University. Prior to this, Kucukural earned a high school degree in Computer Programming.