Tuba Bas

Bio:

Tuba is a Senior Director at Clinical Center of Excellence (CCoE) team as Clinical Capabilities Lead and serving as Global Process Owner for Clinical Protocol Development Process. Some of the highlights from her work are leading cross-functional teams to success for process improvement activities and contributing to organizational excellence. Prior to her role at CCoE, Tuba was a Senior Clinical Development Scientist at BMS Melanoma Program providing scientific leadership and expertise to execute clinical trial activities.  
 
Before joining BMS Tuba served as Lead Clinical Scientist at Merck for the Keytruda Lung Program leading her teams to successful global approvals. She was also the Data Monitoring Committee (DMC) coordinator for the Oncology Lung Program. Before her career at Merck, Tuba was a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at EMD Serono in Translational and Biomarker Research, and Research Fellow at two different academic institutions, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine Cancer Center and Biomedical Engineering Department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. 
 
Tuba has a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry and Master’s degree in Environmental Sciences from Bogaziçi University, and earned a PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Massachusetts Medical School based on her work in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate, Craig C. Mello, identifying new components of the Wnt signaling pathway in C. elegans; and her work in Kobertz Lab on glycobiology that provided a new biogenic mechanism for channelopathies. 
 
During her academic and pharmaceutical career, Tuba has published extensively over a variety of diverse topics including organic chemistry, intracellular signaling pathways, animal models, hematopoietic stem cell physiology, NSCLC, and Melanoma. In her spare time, Tuba enjoys traveling, plenty of outdoor activities (hiking, swimming, playing tennis), gaming (computer and board), learning (clarinet, piano, new concepts/languages), reading Sci-Fi books, and socializing with friends and family. Tuba is a happy puppy mom; and she loves spending time with her pup, “Lucky.”