A note from Dr. Bozdogan

Why I do this work.

Health depends on whether your cells can still talk to each other. Most of medicine treats the symptoms of that conversation going wrong without ever learning the language, and patients pay for the gap with diseases that look unrelated but aren’t. Tissue that should repair instead fails. Minerals that should build bone calcify arteries. A body that should hold itself together comes apart slowly, one decade at a time.

Cellular health is the layer underneath all of this, the signals cells use to repair, to grow, to clear what’s broken, to know when to stop. When that signaling fails, conditions that look unrelated often share a single underlying process. Calcium is one of the conversations I’ve followed most closely. The larger task is to make the language of cells legible to people who aren’t researchers, so they can see what’s happening inside them and what to do about it. That’s the question behind the book and the research.

Education

2023

PhD, Molecular Biochemistry & Genetics

Mustafa Kemal University · Thesis: the role of miRNAs in post-transcriptional regulation of GDF-15 expression in thalassemia patients.

2002

MD, Doctor of Medicine

Gaziantep University, School of Medicine.

Positions & Roles

2022, present

Research Director

Advanced Calcium Research Institute (ACRI). Direct the research program on calcium signaling, pathological calcification, and mitochondrial cross-talk. Coordinate research partnerships and clinical-trial collaboration.

2024, present

Cellular Health Specialist

Online consultations for complex degenerative and unexplained-fatigue cases overlapping with the research focus.

2002 to 2024

Family Physician

Twenty-plus years of general and family medicine, including long-term chronic-disease management across diverse patient populations.

2013

Volunteer Physician, Syrian refugee camp health program

Humanitarian service during the 2013 refugee crisis.

Selected Publications

2026

Preclinical Evaluation of Anti-Orbital Ionic Calcium Compounds Reveals Differential Annexin V/PI-Defined Cell Death Profiles in MCF-7 Breast Cancer Cells

Molecular Biology Reports.

2025

A Potent Calcium Dietary Consumption Improves Bone Mineral Density in Asian Older Adults

Family Medicine and Primary Care.

2023

PhD Thesis, miRNAs in the post-transcriptional regulation of GDF-15 expression in thalassemia

Mustafa Kemal University.

2021

Effect of silibinin on hyperlipidemia in rats fed with a high cholesterol diet

Cukurova Medical Journal · 46(1):125 to 131.

2021

Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF), book chapter

In: Halk Sağlığında Güncel Derlemeler II.

2019

A Preventable Cause of Neurodevelopmental Retardation and Swallowing Disorder in Infancy: Vitamin B12 Deficiency

The Ulutaş Medical Journal · 5(1):110 to 113.