Rare diseases & genomics Research group · Acıbadem Mehmet Ali Aydınlar University
ACURARE–ACUTBAT Undergraduate Research Group
The School of Medicine’s undergraduate research group in rare diseases and breast health, run with the ACURARE centre and ACUTBAT.
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What we work on
The ACURARE–ACUTBAT Undergraduate Research Group gives medical students a supervised route into rare-disease and breast-health research. It works with the Rare Diseases and Orphan Drugs Application and Research Center (ACURARE), founded in 2017 and directed by Prof. Yasemin Alanay, and with ACUTBAT, which organised the Breast Health and Surgery Symposium. Students have presented at the International Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDNI) conference, taken part in the Undiagnosed Hackathon and the ACURARE internship programme, and contributed to the İSTisNA platform's training events for patients and professionals.
The centre itself, its biobank, UDP-İST undiagnosed-disease programme and international networks are described on the ACURARE page under Research Capacity.
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Principal investigator
Prof. Yasemin Alanay
Professor of Pediatrics and Pediatric Genetics; lead of the ACURARE undergraduate research group
Leads research on rare diseases and orphan drugs at ACURARE and mentors the ACURARE–ACUTBAT undergraduate research group.
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Asst. Prof. Kaya Bilgüvar
Academic Staff
- Assoc. Prof. Hande Kaymakçalan Çelebiler Academic Staff
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Assoc. Prof. Özlem Akgün Doğan
Academic Staff
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Prof. Özden Hatırnaz Ng
Academic Staff
- Asst. Prof. Özkan Özdemir Academic Staff
- Beril Ay Undergraduate Student
- Zeynep Yentur Undergraduate Student
- Firuze Kökten Undergraduate Student
- Ulaş Özonur Undergraduate Student
- Emiran Defne Atay Undergraduate Student
- Berkay Yıldız Undergraduate Student
From the group
ACURARE Represented Türkiye at the CEEBB Meeting in Vienna
On January 29–30, 2026, Prof. Yasemin Alanay, Assoc. Prof. Özlem Akgün Doğan and Assoc. Prof. Saygın Abalı represented our center at the First Central & Eastern European Bone Board (CEEBB) Meeting in Vienna.
Presentation on Undiagnosed Patients by ACURARE at the ICORD Annual Meeting
ACURARE Vice Director Prof. Özden Hatırnaz Ng (@ozdenhatirnaz ) participated in the 17th ICORD Annual Meeting, held in İzmir on November 14–16, 2025.
Visit by Our University Delegation to Karolinska Institutet for Scientific Collaboration
Prof. Güldal Süyen, Vice Rector of Acıbadem University, and Prof. Yasemin Alanay, Director of ACURARE, visited Karolinska Institutet in Sweden.
Join us
Clinicians, students and patient organisations who want to work with the centre are welcome to get in touch.
Open to rotation students