Dr. Ayse Kont is a licensed pharmacist, originally trained at Goethe University Frankfurt. She earned her PhD in Pharmaceutical Technology from the School of Pharmacy at University College Cork (UCC), where her research focused on the structure-activity relationship and formulation of cyclodextrins for siRNA delivery. Following her doctoral studies, she joined a collaborative postdoctoral project funded by SSPC and Boston Scientific. She is currently continuing her research at UCC under the Research Ireland RD&I Fellowship with Boston Scientific.