Ali Ertürk

Ali Maximilian Ertürk (born September 1980) is a neuroscientist, inventor, and artist living in Munich, Germany. He is the director of a new Helmholtz Institute on Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine () in Munich since July 2019 and professor at the medical faculty. After his undergraduate study at Bilkent University in Ankara, he joined Max-Planck-Institute for Neurobiology for his PhD and Genentech Inc. for postdoctoral research.

His is known for invention of DISCO tissue transparency technology and deep learning based analysis of large 3D images in biomedicine. The methods collectively target to analyze cellular and molecular details of whole organs and bodies. Ertürk is full (W3) Professor of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and affiliated also with the University of Rochester. He also founded 2 biotechnology companies (Deep Piction and 1X1 Biotech) in 2022 with the aim of creating novel therapies to treat life-threatening illnesses such as cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and heart conditions. Provided by Wikipedia