Speakers

Turgay Dalkara

Place of Birth : Turkey
Position : Professor of Neurology and Member of the Faculty of Medicine and Director of the Neuroscience Ph.D. program at the Institute of Neurological Sciences and Psychiatry, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
Field of study : Stroke, mechanisms of ischemic cell death, reperfusion injury, microcirculation, pericytes, no-reflow phenomenon, migraine, basic mechanisms, neuroinflammation in migraine, spreading depolarization, targeted brain drug delivery, neurodegeneration, neuroprotection, nitric oxide, oxygen radicals, translational neuroscience

Dr. Turgay Dalkara is a Professor of Neurology and member of the Faculty of Medicine and the Director of the Neuroscience Ph.D. program at the Institute of Neurological Sciences and Psychiatry, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey. He received his MD, Neurology, and Ph.D. (Pharmacology) training at Hacettepe University and did his Postdoctoral fellowship at the Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University. He joined the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston in 1992 and, then, held a joint appointment for 28 years. Prof. Dalkara’s research focuses on the basic mechanisms of ischemic brain injury and migraine and targeted brain drug delivery. He received the 2013 Medicine Award from The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) and has been awarded the highest scientific honors in Turkey. He is a principal member of TWAS, the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and Turkish Academy of Sciences. His international publications in English include 25 book chapters and 160 articles. He is a co-editor of a book on neurobiology of migraine. His publications have received over 16000 citations. Prof. Dalkara has played a pioneering role in the development of neurosciences in Turkey and in promoting interest in scientific research among clinicians and medical students. He established the first Turkish Neuroscience Ph.D. program in 1991 and the first undergraduate MD-PhD program in 2003. He also pioneered the development of a Neuroscience and Neurotechnology joint Ph.D. program between the Hacettepe University Institute of Neurological Sciences and Psychiatry and the Middle East Technical University, Ankara. He was the director of the Institute of Neurological Sciences and Psychiatry for 19 years. The Institute has established active collaborations with leading universities in the EU and USA. It has high international visibility. His laboratory has demonstrated outstanding performance in translational research by publishing in high-impact journals such as Science, Nature Medicine, and Nature Nanotechnology, despite limited resources in Turkey. The institute is highly regarded as one of the best scientific centers and a model in Turkey. Its graduates hold key appointments to promote science in leading Turkish Universities. More than half of the teaching faculty of the Institute is female.

Experiences

2019-06 to present | Professor of Neurology, Institute of Neurological Sciences and Psychiatry, Hacettepe University 2001 to 2019 | Director of the Institute, Institute of Neurological Sciences and Psychiatry, Hacettepe University 1991 to present | Director of the Neuroscience Ph.D. program, Institute of Neurological Sciences and Psychiatry, Hacettepe University 1986 to present | Faculty Member, Faculty of Medicine Department of Neurology, Hacettepe University 2016 to 2020 | Research Associate (Radiology), Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School: Boston, MA, US 2004 to 2020 | Associate Pharmacologist (Radiology), Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School: Boston, MA, US 2004 to 2016 | Instructor, Harvard Medical School: Boston, MA, US 1992 to 2015 | Associate Pharmacologist (Neurology), Massachusetts General Hospital: Boston, MA, US 1992 to 1995 | Visiting Professor (Neurology), Massachusetts General Hospital: Boston, MA, US 1982-11 to 1984-11 | Postdoctoral fellow, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University: Montreal, Quebec, CA