Rahaf Al-Masri is currently an M.Sc. student at the NeuroBM lab at Kadir Has University, under Dr. Yasemin Önder’s supervision. Rahaf received her B.Sc. degree in Bioinformatics and Genetics from Kadir Has University. During her B.Sc. she focused on the Modelling and Docking of the Stimulator of interferon genes (STING) protein aiming to further understand the cGAS-cGAMP-STING Pathway and its relation to immune system diseases. Her research interests are molecular and cellular biology, computational biology,  and neuroscience. She likes debates, learning about different cultures, and cookie (her cat).