Serdar Bulun

Serdar Bulun is a gynecologist, with a special interest in the common gynecologic diseases, endometriosis and uterine fibroids.

Biography Bulun was born in Malatya, Turkey in 1959 and moved to Istanbul to attend Robert College and thereafter Istanbul University School of Medicine (Çapa Tıp Fakültesi). He completed his residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the University at Buffalo in New York and pursued a sub-specialty fellowship in reproductive endocrinology-infertility at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. Starting from 2003, he established a comprehensive women's health research program at Northwestern, and recruited and supported numerous faculty who focus on steroid hormone-related pathology of uterine, breast and ovarian disorders. Throughout his career, Dr. Bulun has been awarded over $70 million of research funding in endometriosis, uterine fibroids and breast cancer.

Academic career Bulun discovered the epigenetic basis of endometriosis leading to progesterone resistance in this disease, and introduced aromatase inhibitors as a novel class of drugs to treat it. He has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (formerly known as the Institute of Medicine), the Association of American Physicians and the American Society for Clinical Investigation. He served as the 2015 president for the Society for Reproductive Investigation. He has received the National Institutes of Health-MERIT award for his work in endometriosis and the American Society of Reproductive Medicine Distinguished Researcher Award.

Honors National Academy of Medicine (formerly Institute of Medicine, IOM, elected 2015) Association of American Physicians (AAP, elected 2012) American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI, elected 2003)