M Cenk Akbostancı, born in 1964, completed his secondary and high school education at TED Zonguldak Private High School. He graduated from Uludağ University Faculty of Medicine in 1988, ranking third in his class. He began his specialization training in Neurology at Ankara University Faculty of Medicine in 1989 and completed it in 1993, being appointed as an assistant professor in the same clinic in 1994. In 1997-1998, he worked as a visiting professor at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, Oregon, USA, with Prof J Nutt on botulinum toxin therapy and with Prof K Burchiel on surgical treatment of Parkinson’s Disease and other movement disorders, focusing on microelectrode recordings and deep brain stimulator programming.

In the year 2000, Dr Akbostancı was appointed as an associate professor at Ankara University Faculty of Medicine, where he established the Movement Disorders Unit in 1992.

He is currently a retired faculty member of Ankara University Faculty of Medicine Department of Neurology and Ankara University Rectorate Department of Neuroscience, who served as the head of the Movement Disorders Unit and director of the Ankara University Brain Research Research and Application Center.

For the past 24 years, he has been organizing the Botulinum Toxin Autumn Symposium regularly. He has written four textbooks on movement disorders. His international work can be accessed on PubMed with the keyword AKBOSTANCI. According to the Higher Education Council database (YÖKSİS), as of March 2025, he has written 290 scientific articles, five textbooks, and 14 book chapters, and his scientific activities have been supported nine times by research fund suppliers (TÜBİTAK, etc.).  In his clinical practice, he evaluates  patients with Parkinson’s Disease, dystonia, and other movement disorders.