Prof. Oner was born on 3/1/1944 in Kemah, Erzincan (Turkey). She was educated at Kandilli High School for Girls and obtained: MD Degree from Istanbul University, Faculty of Medicine (1969); and PhD Degree from Hacettepe University, Faculty of Postgraduate Education in 1972.

As an Assistant Professor in Surgical Research Center of Hacettepe Medical School between 1972-1976, she attended the Medical Research Center of the University College Hospital (London) to upgrade her skills and practice in Radioimmunoassay during 6 months. From 1976 to 1985, she worked as an Associate Professor and Senior Researcher in the Surgical Research Center of Hacettepe Medical School. In July 1980, Dr Oner attended the University of Calgary, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics (Alberta/Canada) to study the relationship between Neurohypophyseal Hormones and Zinc; from 1981 to 1982, she studied the effect of Zinc deficiency on somatomedin

Levels in rat in the Department of Endocrinology the Medical College of University of Saskatchewan (Saskatoon/ Canada).

Dr Oner is now Full Professor in Physiology and heads the Department of Physiology and Biophysics and is Director of the Medical Research Center at Akdeniz University, Antalya Medical School (Antalya/Turkey).

Her research topics are:

1. Trace elements and Growth.

2. Trace elements and Atherosclerosis.