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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.
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TASSA
2014
INSTITUTIONAL
MEMBERS
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TASSA
congratulates Turkey's own Prof. Aziz Sancar for receiving the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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 Along with Thomas Lindahl, Paul L. Mordrich,
Aziz Sancar was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work
on the mechanism of DNA repair. Prof. Sancar is the Sarah Graham Kenan Professor
of Biochemistry, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2005, a
member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences since 2006, and an
honorary member of TASSA since 2006. Full
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Serdar
Bulun, MD, is elected to the National Academy of Medicine
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 Serdar Bulun, MD, chair of the Department of
Obstetrics and Gynecology, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM),
formerly known as the Institute of Medicine.
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Murat Günel, MD, is elected to
the National Academy of Medicine
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 Yale Cancer Center's Dr. Murat Gunel, Nixdorff-German Professor and chair, department
of neurosurgery, and professor of neurobiology and genetics, Yale
School of Medicine; and chief, department of neurosurgery, Yale-New
Haven Hospital, has been elected to the National Academy of
Medicine.
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Alper
Bozkurt named to Popular Science's 'Brilliant 10'
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 Alper Bozkurt, from North Carolina State
University has been named as one of "Brilliant 10" by
the Popular Science Magazine. Currently working as an Assistant Professor of Electrical
and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University, Dr.
Bozkurt's research focuses on the Internet of Bionic Things, in
areas ranging from human-animal communication to insect biobots to
human health monitoring devices. Full
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Volkan
Vamık awarded the Mary Sigourney Psychoanalysis Award
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 Vamık Volkan won the 2015 Sigourney Awards -
North American Region.
Being born into the conflict in Cyprus, Vamık Volkan's work
focused on applying a psychoanalytic approach to conflicts. The way
Vamık Volkan applied object relations theory to mental states
has enhanced the understanding of personality disorders. Full
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TASSA
represented Turkey in the Euraxess Conference
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 On November 19, twenty-four organizations
representing twelve different countries including Turkey, gathered
at the Spain Arts & Culture Center in Washington DC, for the
"First Annual Meeting of the European Scientific
Diasporas."
Harvard Fellow Professor Canan Dağdeviren
and TASSA's managing editor Handan Uslu represented Turkey at the
meeting and participated on two different panels.
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TASSA
2016 Conference will be held at the University of Chicago, April
2-3, 2016
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 We are very excited to share that our signature
event, the TASSA Conference, held every two years, will take place
on April 2-3, 2016 at the University of Chicago.
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A
conversation with Moshe Arditi
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Our
guest on this issue of The Bridge is Moshe Arditi, Professor of Pediatrics,
Executive Vice-Chair of the Department of Pediatrics and the
Director of the Infectious and Immunological Diseases Translational
Research Center at Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles.
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Introduction
of the Board Members: Selim Ünlü
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On
behalf of the editorial team of TASSA we are pleased to introduce
the members of our Board of Directors, who have agreed to
graciously share their thoughts on TASSA and its activities, as
well as information about themselves with our readership. In
this issue we feature Selim Ünlü, Professor of Biomedical
Engineering, and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston
University.
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Young
Scholar of the Month: Handan Acar
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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 Handan
Acar, a postdoctoral scholar, at the University of Chicago's
Institute of Molecular Engineering.
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