yonca

Yonca Betul Karadeniz, PhD candidate in Neuroscience & Biochemistry

Thinking about biology like a system that breaks — and asking what happens when we stop pretending it doesn’t.

I’m Yonca — neuroscientist, biochemist, and sharp-edged thinker trying to make sense of biology where it breaks.

I study how chromatin remodeling is regulated, how glial mechanisms shape neurodevelopment and neurodegenerative disease — and where that biology quietly fails in translation.

I’ve spent the last decade in labs. Now I’m exploring the intersection of biology, strategy, and venture design.

I created Salience Map to think out loud. Sometimes the ideas will be tight. Sometimes they’ll break. That’s the point.

I’m especially passionate about therapeutic failure modes nobody wants to talk about — and how biology gets abstracted into models, and what we lose in the process.

I’m based in Boston and open to collaborations, fellowships, and weird moonshots.

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