About

Dr. Sedat Kacar, PhD

I'm a computational biologist and postdoctoral researcher at Indiana University School of Medicine, where I specialize in single-cell RNA sequencing and spatial transcriptomics.

My background is unusual: I have a PhD in Histology & Embryology and over a decade of wet lab experience — which means I understand the tissue, the cells, and the experiment behind your data, not just the numbers. This biological intuition is what separates a meaningful analysis from a technically correct but scientifically hollow one.

Over the past 4+ years, I've built organ-scale single-cell atlases, discovered novel cell populations, mapped spatial gene expression across disease states, and translated sequencing data into biological insights published in Nature Communications, Communications Biology, and Molecular Therapy.

I also developed scPassport, an R package on Bioconductor for metadata management in single-cell RNA-seq — because I build tools, not just run pipelines.

I founded Nutfah Single-cell Omics LLC to make this expertise accessible to research labs and biotech companies that have valuable data but need a skilled analyst to unlock it.