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| Born | Ivet Bahar Istanbul, Turkey |
| Citizenship | United States |
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| Spouse | Dr. Izzet Bahar |
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| Website | laufercenter |
Ivet Bahar is a Turkish-American computational biologist, currently serving as the Director of the Louis and Beatrice Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology, Louis & Beatrice Laufer Endowed Chair and Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology at the Stony Brook University, School of Medicine. Before joining Stony Brook University, she served as Distinguished Professor, John K. Vries Chair and Founder of the Department of Computational and Systems Biology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine (2001-2022), and as Assistant (1986-1987), Associate (1987-1993) and Full Professor (1993-2001) at the Chemical Engineering Department of Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey. Dr. Bahar is also the co-founder of an internationally acclaimed Joint CMU-Pitt Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology, CPCB, offered by the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. She is an elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) since 2000. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2020.[1]
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