Aliya BekmurzayevaA. Bekmurzayeva is a PhD Candidate at School of Engineering at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan and a researcher at National Laboratory Astana, Kazakhstan. Aliya received her Bachelors degree in Ecology Al Farabi Kazakh National University (Kazakhstn), and Master degree in Biotechnolgy from McGill University (Canada). She was awarded a Newton Al Farabi Researchers links travel grant and worked at Queen Mary University of London (UK) on functionalization of metal used in biomedicine. Her PhD thesis is focused on developing a platform functionalized with aptamers for the detection of cancer cells. She has been working on the development of biosensors since 2011. Particularly she has been working on aptamer selection against proteins and cells and their application in diagnostics, optical fiber biosensors. Interested in functionalization of biomaterials for various biomedical applications Read More Read Less