Nadire Kıyak was born in Nicosia, Cyprus in 1993. She graduated from Bülent Ecevit Anatolian High School in 2011 and earned her bachelor’s degree in the Department of Biology from Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Faculty of Science in 2015. In 2016, she started working at Near East University Experimental Health Sciences Research Center (NEU-DESAM) Cell Culture Laboratory. She completed her master's degree at the Department of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, Near East University between 2018 and 2021. Since 2021, she has been continuing her doctoral education at the Department of Histology and Embryology and working at DESAM Research Institute Cell Culture Laboratory. She has articles in national and international indexed journals and congress presentations. Her academic interests include research on cell signaling pathways in tissues or cells, cancer biology, and cytotoxicity. She is married.