- Doctor of Philosophy Candidate, Nuffield Department of Women’s & Reproductive Health, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
- MD, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Health Sciences Turkey, Sisli Hamidiye Etfal Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
Nura Fitnat Topbas Selcuki is a DPhil candidate in the EndoCaRe Group at Women’s and Reproductive Health at the University of Oxford. Fitnat’s research focuses on the genetic basis of adenomyosis compared to endometriosis. She will be performing genome-wide association studies to evaluate disease-associated variants. She also aims to expand the ancestral diversity of existing study populations by including two studies from the Eastern Mediterranean region, Cyprus Women’s Health Research (COHERE) Initiative and Turkey Oxford Endometriosis and Adenomyosis Study (TROX), in her analyses.
Fitnat is also an attending physician at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Health Sciences Turkey based in Istanbul. She focuses on benign gynaecological diseases and has a special interest in endometriosis. She is also an active member of the Turkish Endometriosis and Adenomyosis Society.
She was selected as a World Endometriosis Society Early Career Ambassador in 2019 and an Early Career Board member in 2023.