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TASSA 2014
INSTITUTIONAL
MEMBERS
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Aydogan Ozcan
Received HHMI Professorship
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The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
recently announced 15 leading scientist-educators as HHMI
Professor, including Aydogan Ozcan. Dr. Ozcan is the Chancellor's
Professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering at the UCLA
Henry Samueli School of Engineering and
Applied Science. He is also the associate director of California nanosystems Institute (CNSI) and the founder of
Holomic LLC.
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A Turkish Physician Scientist's Study
Receives National Attention
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 Shortly after
departing the boxing ring, the king of boxing, Muhammed Ali,
started having symptoms. First his hands started to shake, and then
his movements started to slow down. His speech was also affected.
The king, who in his own words, "would fly like a butterfly,
but sting like a bee" was suffering from a neurologic disease
called Parkinson's disease.
The disease was first described by James Parkinson in
1817 as "shaking palsy." Since then many scientists have
studied the disease, which affects the central nervous system. One
physician scientist studying Parkinson's disease is Ergun Uc, associate professor of neurology, at the
Carver College of Medicine of the University of Iowa and Veterans
Affairs Medical Center.
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TUBITAK Academic Research Funding Program Directorate
(ARDEB) Announces the Release of "ARDEB Success Stories"
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Much of the research taking place in Turkey's
academic, industrial and research centers are sponsored by the
Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council's ARDEB
branch. ARDEB reviews research proposals and funds successful
proposals that are in alignment with Turkey's general science and
technology policies and principles, as well as country's long-term
goals.
As part of these sponsorship activities, ARDEB also
monitors the progress and completion of the sponsored projects and
publishes success stories. Recently, ARDEB's Education, Publicity
and Program Evaluation Directorate announced the release of
"ARDEB Success Stories Book". The book includes
information about ARDEB-sponsored projects that are successfully
completed.
The electronic version of the book could be downloaded
here.
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Turkish Healthcare Professionals And Medical
Scientists Are Invited to Attend A Summit in Turkey
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The Turkish Ministry of Health will host an
international summit for Turkish healthcare professionals and
medical scientist from around the world. The goal of the summit is
to educate attendees on recent developments in the Turkish
healthcare system, provide a platform to exchange ideas and
information among attendees and define and evaluate opportunities
for collaboration in science and commerce between the
representatives from Turkey and healthcare professionals and
medical scientist living abroad. The summit will be held in
Istanbul October 29 through November 1st, 2014.
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Networking Opportunity for Young Turkish Americans in
Washington, DC
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The Turkish Coalition of America (TCA) announces the
First Annual Turkish American Youth Leadership Congress that will
be held in Washington DC, on October 9-12, 2014. TCA plans to
recruit thirty ambitious and enthusiastic young Turkish Americans
to Washington, DC and engage them in meetings and briefings with
the U.S. Government, Turkish Embassy officials, policy experts, and
Turkish American activists. The program will feature opportunities
to network with members of Congress, diplomats, political leaders,
and with other young Turkish Americans, as well as events
highlighting the cultural and national landmarks of Washington, DC.
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ABOUT
Turkish
American Scientists and Scholars Association (TASSA) is an
independent, non-profit and non-political organization established
in June 2004 in Washington, DC. READ MORE
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Message from the
TASSA President
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Dear Friends of TASSA,
As we start the Fall semester, I wish the members of
the TASSA community a healthy and a productive academic year.
At TASSA we are coming out of a slow summer, which was
basically a reorganization period.
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By Nilay Papila
Turkish
Researchers' Performance in European
Research Council Grants
Last week, the President of European
Research Council (ERC), Prof. Dr. Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, visited
Turkey to overview Turkish scientists' ERC performance during the
EU 7th Framework Program (FP7) (2007-2013) and exchanged ideas on
how to improve it for the ERC calls for the Horizon2020 program
(2014-2020).
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A Conversation with Alp Ercan
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The
Bridge editorial team interviewed Dr. Esen
Ercan Alp about his career, his research, and his opinion on the
current status of collaboration between the US and Turkish research
institutions in the field of physics. Dr. Alp is currently the Senior
Scientist at the Argonne National Laboratory Advanced Photon Source.
He will be chairing the 2016 TASSA meeting, thus we also asked him
about his vision for the meeting.
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Ahmet Coskun
The Bridge: Would you please tell us about yourself and
your journey that led you to become a scientist.
Ahmet F. Coskun: My
journey to curiosity began in my early college years at Koc University, Turkey. I started majoring in
Electrical Engineering with the intent to develop medical devices
that can save lives. I could have contributed to human health by
attending a medical school, but I wanted to stay on the technology
side of health research.
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