Jale Refik Rogers was born in Nicosia in 1977. She completed her undergraduate degree in Biochemistry as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Maine, Orono, in the USA. She then worked as a Research Assistant at Harvard Medical School before pursuing a Doctorate degree in Molecular Genetics through a joint program at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Cornell Medical School in New York City.

 

After completing her doctoral studies and working as a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant, Rogers returned to Cyprus in 2007. She became an Assistant Professor. In 2010, she established the Molecular Genetics Laboratory, serving as the Laboratory Supervisor.

 

Rogers has contributed to the Cyprus Turkish Human Rights Foundation as a Board of Trustees member and has served on the National Cancer Advisory Board. Since 2014, she has been a member of the Bi-communal Technical Committee on Health and is also a member of the Steering Committee of the Cyprus Women’s Bi-Communal Coalition.