She obtained her pharmacy degree from Istanbul University and moved to the States for her graduate studies. Feyza received her Ph.D. in Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine under the guidance of Dr. Brendan Lee, where she demonstrated for the first time that Notch signaling has dimorphic effects in bone development by affecting both the terminal differentiation of osteoblasts and osteoblast-dependent osteoclast activity during skeletal development, and that dysregulation of these programs leads to bone disorders including osteoporosis, osteosclerosis and osteosarcomas.