Zuhal Dincer

BSTP-ESTP Congress
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Dr Zuhal Dincer, DVM, PhD, FRCPath
Zuhal undertook her Veterinary degree at Ankara University in Turkey. After a short period in practice, she joined the Pathology Department at Selcuk University as a teaching/research assistant, gaining experience in farm animal diseases. She completed her PhD at Liverpool University in 1995 followed by postdoctoral research in Pathology Department, University of Bristol. Zuhal joined Scantox, Denmark in 1997 gaining experience in toxicological pathology, specializing in minipigs and wound healing research. She joined GlaxoSmithKline in the UK in 2002, achieving Fellowship of the Royal College of Pathologists by examination in Veterinary Pathology in 2006. In 2008, she joined Pfizer as a Senior Pathologist conducting and peer-reviewing internal/external toxicity studies (non-GLP and GLP) and providing input for the design, execution and interpretation of mechanistic studies and biomarker development. In addition, she was involved with early drug development projects for small molecules and biologics in the Respiratory/Allergy, Regenerative Medicine, and Pain therapeutic areas. She joined Novartis in 2011 as a senior pathologist and also took the role of preclinical project team lead in the Respiratory/Allergy, and NeuroScience therapeutic areas. Zuhal joined Labcorp Early Drug Development at Harrogate UK, March 2017 as a senior pathologist reporting and interpreting pathology data from all types of toxicity and carcinogenicity studies in toxicology species. Since November 2023, Zuhal is Head of Pathology Sciences Department at Sequani, UK responsible for training, leading, and peer-reviewing pathologists for non-clinical safety studies.

She is a member of the BSTP as a councillor, ESTP as a BSTP representative, and STP-SRPC/STP-TPF as a BSTP representative. She is also a member of Minipig INHAND and Skin/Soft Tissues INHAND working groups. She has many areas of interest, particularly in minipigs, animal models, skin/subcutis and immunotoxicology and has several publications to her name in the field of minipig toxicology.