Rate My Professor Seyhan Yazar

Dr Seyhan Yazar is a medical scientist and computational biologist affiliated with the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and UNSW’s School of Clinical Medicine. She holds a Bachelor of Medical Science from the University of New South Wales, a Master of Orthoptics from the University of Sydney, and a PhD from the University of Western Australia awarded in 2016. Her doctoral research, supervised by Professors David Mackey and Alex Hewitt, examined genetic and environmental factors in complex diseases and associated traits using population-based studies.

Following her PhD, Dr Yazar received an NHMRC CJ Martin Biomedical Fellowship for bioinformatics training at the University of Edinburgh. She joined the Garvan-Weizmann Centre for Cellular Genomics, where she led the initial phase of the OneK1K/TenK10K project on cell-type-specific biomarkers for autoimmune diseases. In 2024, she was recruited as Group Leader in the Precision Immunology Program at Garvan. Her research focuses on complex disease genetics, gene-environment interactions, single-cell genomics, and the development of precision biomarkers for clinical decision-making, with emphasis on autoimmune and eye diseases. Key recent publications include work on sex differences in the immune system at the single-cell level (American Journal of Human Genetics, 2026) and the EBV-autoimmunity axis in conditions such as SLE, MS, and PSC (Immunology and Cell Biology, 2026). Dr Yazar has received awards including the 2024 Multiple Sclerosis Australia Postdoctoral Fellowship, the 2024 Jacqueline Goodnow and Barbara Hartley Prize, and recognition in Stanford University’s list of the top 2% of scientists worldwide in 2023. She is a Conjoint Lecturer at UNSW and contributes to projects advancing understanding of immune cell variation and autoimmune disease mechanisms.

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