Mine Çiçek, PhD

Dr. Mine Çiçek is an associate professor of laboratory medicine and pathology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. She also serves as director of Mayo’s Biorepositories Program, which manages the storage, preparation and distribution of biological samples for medical research.

Çiçek earned her doctorate in genetics from Virginia Tech. She completed research fellowships in cancer biology at Cleveland Clinic and molecular cancer genetics at Mayo Clinic.

Çiçek joined Mayo Clinic in 2008 as a laboratory director. Today, she advises researchers and clinical trial teams across all Mayo sites on study design, sample collection and processing. She focuses on updating automated biobank systems, expanding storage capacity and helping researchers use collected samples effectively.

Çiçek is a member of the International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories. She leads several major national biobanks hosted at Mayo Clinic, including sample repositories for the National Institutes of Health’s long COVID study and the All of Us Research Program.