Education
Uygun received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science from Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey, with Doctor Ugur Akman as his advisor on both his Master of Science and Bachelor of Science theses. He received Doctor of Philosophy in chemical engineering from Wayne State University in 2004. After working for 2 years as a post-doctoral researcher in the research laboratory of the department where he received his Doctor of Philosophy, in 2006 he became a research associate in the "Center for Engineering in Medicine" of the Massachusetts General Hospital, where he became the leader of the Organ Engineering Group.