She is part of the Department of Neuroscience for the university’s school of medicine. Prior to joining the university in the fall of 2011, Gizem Donmez was already studying neurodegenerative disease at MIT. At MIT, from 2007 to 2011, she conducted her postdoctoral fellowship. Gizem Donmez’s research was focused on sirtuins and the role they played in neurodegenerative disease.