Professor Murat Gültekin
Scientific Profile

Professor Murat Gültekin

Public health experience behind the development of CarciScan

A gynecologic oncologist and public health leader whose career connects national cancer policy, academic research and practical HPV screening.

Current profile

  • Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hacettepe University
  • Gynecologic oncologist, TOBB ETÜ Hospital
  • Specialist in HPV screening and cervical cancer prevention

Additional roles & affiliations

  • Chair, ESGO Prevention and HPV Committee (see ESGO Prevention, career milestones)
  • Chair, European Network of Gynaecological Cancer Network (EnGAGE)
  • Chair, Central Asia and East Europe Gynecological Cancer Trials (CENT-EAST)
  • Advisor to the Turkish Ministry of Health, WHO, PARSAGO and MEMAGO

National screening evidence

4.1M
women included in a peer-reviewed analysis of Türkiye's national HPV screening program.
The national program used earlier commercial assays. Its relevance is the implementation experience that later informed CarciScan.

From national screening to CarciScan

  1. 1

    National-scale experience · 2012–2017

    Led Türkiye's Cancer Department and helped shape the country's national HPV DNA screening program. A national analysis covering 4,099,230 women produced large-scale evidence on how molecular screening performs in a public health system.

  2. 2

    Scientific development

    Building on this experience, he served as Principal Investigator of the 2020–2022 TÜBİTAK project to develop an HPV genotyping kit. The project established CarciScan, a real-time PCR solution manufactured by eDNA Teknoloji in Türkiye.

  3. 3

    International implementation

    Professor Gültekin later co-designed a CarciScan self-sampling study protocol in Ghana, supporting its methodology and equipment planning. The 1,000-participant study was designed to assess implementation in a resource-limited setting.

  4. 4

    Relevance for the Philippines

    Malaya United Trading Inc. is developing an integrated Philippine screening pathway around CarciScan, connecting decentralized sample collection, partner-laboratory PCR testing, digital result delivery and structured follow-up. Professor Gültekin's experience bridges national policy, molecular diagnostics and real-world implementation.

His documented connection to CarciScan spans national program leadership, principal investigation of the development project and international implementation research.
Selected evidence: Hacettepe University profile · CarciScan project registry (TÜBİTAK) · National screening study · ESGO Prevention · Ghana protocol (Taumberger et al., Cancer Control, 2025) · signed correspondence, Hacettepe University Rectorate. Sources reviewed September 2026.
Career milestones

Two decades at the intersection of policy and science.

  1. 2012–17 Cancer Department Head of Türkiye's national cancer control department
  2. 2015–17 ESGO Vice-President
  3. 2019–26 ESGO Prevention Founder and first Chair
  4. 2020–22 CarciScan Principal Investigator of the TÜBİTAK development project
  5. 2025 Ghana protocol Co-designed a 1,000-participant self-sampling study
In the field

Still active at the front line of HPV science.

Professor Gültekin continues to teach and present at international HPV and colposcopy courses — the same clinical community whose screening experience shaped CarciScan.

Recent appearance

  • Speaker, "HPV Related Diseases and Vaccination: State of the Art" — HPV and Colposcopy Course, ESGO & TRSGO, Crowne Plaza Cappadocia, 4–5 September 2026
HPV and Colposcopy Course · Cappadocia, Sept 2026
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