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TASSA
2014
INSTITUTIONAL
MEMBERS
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Gokhan Hotamisligil is to lead the Sabri
Ulker Center at Harvard with a $24M gift
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Ulker biskuvi is a very familiar and appealing name for those
of us who grew up in Turkey. The company, established in 1944 by Sabri
Ulker, has been on the radar of Wall Street as the former owner of the
Godiva chocolates and as the producer of Cola Turka, which according to
some sources, cut the profit of Coca Cola by 10%. Recently the Ulker
family made a historic $24M donation to Harvard University's T.H. Chan
School of Public Health to establish the Sabri Ulker Center for Nutrient,
Genetic, and metabolic Research. The center will be led by one of our
own, a TASSA member, Gokhan Hotamisligil, the J.S. Simmons Professor of
Genetics and Metabolism, and the chair of the Department of Genetics and
Complex Diseases at the School of Public Health.
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Önder
Ergönül on Ebola Outbreak
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 Since late spring of this year, we have been hearing two
words in almost every news program; "Ebola" and
"outbreak." Because of the importance of the subject, the
editorial team of The Bridge, seeks to inform our membership body about
Ebola virus outbreak. We reached Dr. Önder Ergönül, a professor of
infectious diseases and clinical microbiology at Koc University and asked
him some of the frequently asked questions. Below is our
conversation with Dr. Ergönül.
In addition
to his faculty position at Koc University, Dr. Ergönül is also the chair
of Infectious Diseases Department of American Hospital in Istanbul, and
Turkish Society of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology. He is a
full member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences.
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A Turkish
Scientist's Invention Could be the Solution for Ebola Diagnostics
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Ebola
epidemic started in West Africa, and now seems to be spreading to other
countries including the United States. Containment of the disease is
vital for stopping its spread. However, with the current diagnostic tools
it takes about two to three days from sample collection to diagnostics.
In many cases the latency in diagnostics is due to the time it takes for
the sample transport to the central laboratory. Because of lack of
a diagnostic device that can perform in the field, the samples have to be
shipped to specialized laboratories equipped with expensive and
sophisticated laboratory equipment, and have to be analyzed by
highly trained technicians.
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Murat
Günel to lead the Neurosurgery Department
at
Yale University
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Murat Günel, MD, has been
appointed as the chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at Yale
University School of Medicine and chief of the Department of Neurosurgery
at Yale-New Haven Hospital.
Günel is the Nixdorff-German Professor of Neurosurgery and professor of
genetics and neurobiology. He is the director of the Yale Program in
Brain Tumor Research, co-director of the Yale Program on Neurogenetics,
and chief of the Section of Neurovascular Surgery. A graduate of
Istanbul University, College of Medicine, Günel completed his internship
and residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital.
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Duygu
Kuzum is one of 35 Innovator under 35
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Every year, MIT
Technology Review selects 35 inventors, visionaries, humanitarians,
pioneers and entrepreneurs who are under the age of 35. The candidates
are nominated by the public or by MIT Technology Review's editors.
This year, there were 500 nominees, 80 of whom made the final round. The
finalist were then evaluated by a group of judges based on originality
and impact, or potential impact of their work. The "2014 35
Innovators Under 35" list also included a Turkish scientist, this
year; Duygu Kuzum.
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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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By
Nilay Papila
Do You
Know Your Commitments When Accepting a Research Fellow from Turkey?
New
research funding programs are steadily introduced in Turkey and Europe
(EU). They also include various grants and fellowships promoting
academic visits and brain circulation for which I am often consulted on
the key differences and requirements. Therefore, in this article, I
will be sharing the up to date fellowship programs that allow
scientist/fellows to visit institutes in the USA and their
requirements/commitments.
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A
Conversation with Ümit Özkan
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Our guest on this issue of
The Bridge is Umit Ozkan, a distinguished professor of Chemical and
Biomolecular Engineering at the Ohio State University, College of
Engineering.
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Ayça Yalçın
Özkumur
In every issue of The Bridge, we highlight a young scholar
profile from our diaspora. These accomplished and early career
individuals demonstrate the potential of next generation Turkish-American
scientists and scholars. The young scholar in this issue is Ayca
YalcinÖzkumur who is a new faculty participating in a collaboration
between Bahcesehir and Boston Universities.
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Kadir
Aslan on Nanotechnology and Medical Biotechnology
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Human hair, which is visible
to the naked eye, has a typical size of 100,000th of a meter or said to
be in the micro scale. Nanotechnology is defined as the manipulation of matter
in the scale of 1 to 100 nm, or the nanoscale (that is, up to 1000-fold
less than a human hair). Human eye cannot see the nanoscale matter
directly and require special electronic and optical instrumentation to
visualize them.
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