Biography
Berna Seker Yilmaz has been a consultant in paediatric inherited metabolic disease at Evelina London since September 2024 and the research lead for paediatric inherited metabolic disease since May 2025.
She is also a senior research associate at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health and honorary senior clinical lecturer at the University of Surrey.
- MD, Medicine, University of Ankara, 2002
- Paediatrics training and PhD, University of Mersin, 2005 to 2011
- Paediatric inherited metabolic disease subspecialty training and postdoctoral fellowship, University of Cukurova, 2013 to 2016
- Paediatric inherited metabolic disorders
- Gene therapy and translational medicine
- Gene therapy development for inherited metabolic disorders
- Natural history studies in rare metabolic diseases
- Collaborative international research focused on improving diagnosis, treatment, and long term outcomes for children with inborn errors of metabolism
- International Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Scientific and Technological Research Institution of Turkey (TUBITAK), 2018
- Associate professor in paediatric inherited metabolic disease, Turkish Council of Higher Education, 2021
- William French Memorial Award, Neimann-Pick UK (NPUK), 2024