Foreign Languages Known (Score and Year): English (78.5, 2010 ÜDS)

Certifications Obtained:

• Robotic surgery certificate
• Kidney transplant certificate
• Liver transplant certificate

Profession:

General Surgery, Transplantation

Tasks:

Performed in Projects:

1. Plasma homocysteine levels in living kidney donors before and after uninephrectomy (clinical research). National Institutes of Health Program Project Grant in Transplantation (NIH DK 13083-31), “Organ Transplantation in Animals and Man.” Project Designer .
2. Protective effect of resveratrol, a red wine constituent polyphenol, on rats subjected to portal vein thrombosis (experimental study). Project Designer .
3. ^{Effect of nipruss ®} as nitric oxide donor on colonic anastomosis healing in a diabetic rat model (experimental study). Master thesis.Project Designer .
4. Resistance to the induction of mixed chimerism in spontaneously diabetic NOD mice depends on the CD40/CD154 pathway and donor MHC disparity (experimental study). NIH (R21AI055469) with JDRF Center for Islet Transplantation at the University of California, San Francisco, the University of Minnesota. Project Implementer .
5. A substantial level of donor hematopoietic chimerism is required to protect donor-specific islet grafts in diabetic NOD mice (experimental study). Project Implementer.
6. Inducing tolerance to MHC-matched allogeneic islet grafts in Diabetic NOD mice by simultaneous islet and bone marrow transplantation under nonirradiative and nonmyeloablative conditioning therapy. (experimental study). Project Implementer.
7. Rapamycin and T cell costimulatory blockade as post-transplant treatment promote fully MHC-mismatched allogeneic bone marrow engraftment under irradiation-free conditioning therapy. (experimental study). Project Implementer. Supported by Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International and the American Diabetes Association.
8. Blockade of the CD40/CD154 pathway enhances T-cell-depleted allogeneic bone marrow engraftment under nonmyeloablative and irradiation-free conditioning therapy (experimental study 2009 – 2012). Project Implementer.
9. Multicenter study (clinical investigation) evaluating the safety and tolerability of the use of valganciclovir in the prevention of cytomegalovirus disease in solid organ transplant patients. Prot number: ML 21922.
10. Multicenter follow-up study investigating the efficacy and safety of PSI group drugs in kidney transplant patients (clinical study 2008-2012). CRAD001ATR02. Responsible Researcher.
11. Kidney Collaboravite Transplant Study. Germany. (clinical research. Responsible Researcher. 2016-)
12. Insufficiency of organ donation in Turkey and its causes . Clinical Research Project. (project assistant responsible/supervisor).2016
13. Development of statistical decision support systems for donor and donor matching in cadaveric kidney transplantation. 2018. TUBITAK 1003. Clinical Research Project. (project assistant responsible/supervisor)

Administrative Duties:

Memberships to Scientific Organizations:

1. EUROPIAN SOCIETY OF TRANSPLANTATION (ESOT)
2. AMERICAN SOCIETY OF TRANSPLANTATION (AST)
3. TURKISH ORGAN TRANSPLANT ASSOCIATION (TOND)
4. NATIONAL SURGICAL ASSOCIATION
5. TIGED