Founder & CEO

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ozlem Barut Selver, MD

Dr. Ozlem Barut Selver, is an ophthalmic surgeon specialising in the field of cornea and corneal diseases. She was born in 1980 in Ankara,Turkey. She graduated from Ege University School of Medicine in 2004 with first class honours and completed her residency at Dokuz Eylul University School of Medicine, Ophthalmology Department between 2004-2010. She has been working as specialist between 2014-2020 and Associate Professor since 2020 at Ophthalmology Department of Ege University, School of Medicine. She has 16 years of experience in limbal stem cell translational science. In 2009, she got a scholarship from TUBITAK and worked at the ocular surface research laboratory, which is located at the Ophthalmology Department of Mount Sinai School of Medicine, US. She has been involved in 6 projects about the translational science of limbal stem cells, four of them funded by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey. She has 33 international, 16 national papers published in various journals. She had been assigned the additional responsibilities as a Laboratory Manager of Eye Bank at Ege University Hospital since 2019. She also co founded LIMBUSTEM as a start-up to develop a personalised cellular therapy product for limbal stem cell deficiency.