Mine Çiçek, PhD

Mine S. Çiçek, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Dr. Çiçek is the Program Director of the Biorepositories Program, part of the Office of Core Shared Services. She joined the staff of Mayo Clinic in 2008 as the Director of Biospecimen Accessioning and Processing (BAP) Core Laboratory and holds the academic rank of Associate Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology. Dr. Çiçek earned her Ph.D. in Genetics at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. She subsequently completed a Cancer Biology postdoctoral fellowship at Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic and a Molecular Cancer Genetic Epidemiology fellowship at Mayo Clinic. As the Director of the Biorepositories Program, Dr. Çiçek contributes her expertise in research studies and clinical trials and supports the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, SPOREs, and the clinical trials networks Alliance across all Mayo sites. She gives guidance in study design, biospecimen collections and processing. She continuously brings knowledge to the program to improve automation, expand storage capacity, and educate investigators on best practices for biospecimen usage. Dr. Çiçek is a member of the International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories. She is the Mayo Clinic PI of The Alliance NCTN Biorepository and Biospecimen Resource, PI of the RECOVER Biobank, and PI of the All of Us Research Program (AoURP) Biobank and Nutrition for Precision Health (NPH) Biobank.