International research collaborations

Resident and supported researchers at Acıbadem University collaborate with respected scientists abroad. The ongoing and completed international research collaborations declared to the International Office are listed below, as published on the university site.

Overview

Partner-search support for Horizon Europe, MSCA, COST, IHI and bilateral programmes is provided by the Technology Transfer Office; see Strategy, funding & policies and Research funding organisations.

Researcher	Collaborator / network	Institution	Country	Project	Years
Prof. Filiz Onat	Zoltan Molnar	Oxford University	UK	Novel Neuropeptidergic Therapeutic Strategies on the Management of Absence Epilepsy	2019 – To date
Prof. Filiz Onat	Deniz Kirik	Lunden University	Sweden	Experimental Approaches to the Coexistence of Epilepsy and Parkinson's Disease	2016 – To date
Prof. Filiz Onat	Sanjay Sisodiya	University College	UK	Climate change and epilepsy	2021 – To date
Prof. Filiz Onat	Philip Patsalos	University College	UK	The relationship between the blood concentration of the antiepileptic drug levetiracetam and the treatment response	2015 – To date
Prof. Filiz Onat	Annamaria Vezzani	EU FP6 Project	Italy	Functional genomics and neurobiology of epilepsy: A basis for new therapeutic strategies	2006 – 2011
Prof. Filiz Onat	Astrid Nehlig	French Institute of Health and Medical Research	France	Cerebral blood flow in kindling-treated rats with genetic absence epilepsy (GAERS)	2006 – To date
Prof. Filiz Onat	Gilles van Luijtelaar	Radboud University	Holland	Intracortical effects of kindling and phenytoin in the WAG/Rij model	2005 – 2014
Prof. Filiz Onat	Carter Snead	University of Toronto	Canada	Investigation of the kindling process in a pharmacological absence epilepsy model in Wistar rats	2009 – 2019
Prof. Filiz Onat	Terry O’brien	Monash University	Australia	Investigation of Thalamocortical Loop in Kindling Process in Rats with Genetic Absence Epilepsy	2008 – 2019
Prof. Filiz Onat	Vincenzo Crunelli	Cardiff University	UK	The role of hyperpolarization-activated cyclic nucleotide gated channels (HCN) in absence epilepsy	2012 – 2018
Prof. Filiz Onat	Aristea S. Galanpoulou	Albert Einstein College of Medicine	USA	Development of antiepileptogenic and disease modifying therapies for post-traumatic epilepsies; Mechanisms and treatments for epileptic encephalopathies; age and sex specific epileptogenesis; models of lissencephaly	2015 – 2017
Prof. Filiz Onat	Solomon Moshe	Albert Einstein College of Medicine	USA	The study of antiepileptogenesis following traumatic brain injury, intractable age specific epilepsies and their consequences, and subcortical circuits involving the control of seizures	2005 – 2008
Prof. Ozgur Kurt	Clinical Parasitology Workgroup	ESCMID	EU	Frequency of toxoplasmosis in patients who underwent organ transplantation in Europe between 2010 and 2014	2015 – 2020
Prof. Ozgur Kurt	Dr. C.Rune Stensvold & Dr. Henrik V. Nielsen	Statens Serum Institute	Denmark	Microbiota Research with a Special Emphasis on Eukaryotes	2020 – To date
Prof. Ozgur Kurt	Leishmania Study Group	Various	France, Netherlands, Turkey	Detailed genomic and proteomic characterization of Leishmania donovani / Leishmania infantum hybrid strain identified in an autochthonous patient with visceral leishmaniasis for the first time in Turkey and the analyses of its pathogenic effects and the immune response in a mouse model in comparison with the reference strains of L. donovani and L. infantum.”	2010 – To date
Assoc. Prof. Meltem Kolgazi	Karl Herbert Schaefer / AGENS	Hochschule Kaiserslautern	Germany	Role of the ENS in neurodegenerative diseases	2013 – To date
Dr. Perinur Bozaykut Eker	Prof. Thomas Park	University of Illinois	USA	Cardiac Analysis on the Superior Hypoxia-tolerance through in vivo and in vitro Approaches
Dr. Perinur Bozaykut Eker	Prof. Vadim Gladshev	Harvard Medical School	USA	In vitro validation of drug repurposing analysis for the senotherapeutic agent discovery
Dr. Perinur Bozaykut Eker	Dr. Semih Beyaz	Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory	USA	The Molecular and Epigenetic Mechanisms Developed Against Cellular Stress in 3D culture of Long-lived and Cancer-resistant Blind Mole-rat
Prof. Beki Kan	Cost Action CA 18133	European Research Network on Signal Transduction	EU	Developing a common, comprehensive and holistic map of signal transduction that will advance development of pathway-specific chemical modulators
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Bukem Tanoren	Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Siegen University, Bogazici University		Germany	The stability of atherosclerotic plaques is mainly determined by the progress of calcification. This translates to Ca concentrations as well as the size of micro-calcifications, where sizes above approximately 50 μm indicate a stable plaque. Scanning Acoustic Microscopy (SAM) delivers information about calcium (Ca) concentrations in atherosclerotic plaques and offers a spatial resolution of a few 10 micrometers. Proper calibration for translating SAM into a quantitative method has not been performed due to a lack of a gold standard. High resolution (1 μm) x-ray fluorescence (XRF) imaging and tomography at the Microprobe station of P06 in DESY would provide a gold standard for validation and calibration of SAM
Prof. Ahmet Alanay	The European Spine Study Group ESSG	Various	Spain, Switzerland, France	Multi-Center Prospective Study and Database “Clinical Outcomes Following Conservative and Surgical Treatment of Adult Spine Deformity. Relevance of Coronal and Sagittal Spinopelvic Parameters”	2010 – To date
Prof. Ahmet Alanay	AO Spine	Various	Canada, USA	Prospective Evaluation of Elderly Deformity Surgery: A Prospective Observational, Multicenter Study (PEEDS)
Prof. Ahmet Alanay	AO Spine	Various	Canada, USA	Spinal Deformity Intraoperative Monitoring (SDIM) : Understanding and managing intraoperative neuromonitoring changes during spinal deformity surgery: a prospective interventional study
Prof. Ahmet Alanay	Harms Study Group (HSG)	Children’s Hospital San Diego	USA	Retrospective Multi-Center Study of the Outcomes of Anterior Vertebral Body Tethering for Spinal Deformity Correction in Idiopathic Scoliosis
Prof. Ahmet Alanay	Harms Study Group (HSG)	Shriners Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, PA	USA	Non-Fusion Spinal Deformity Correction in Idiopathic Scoliosis – A Prospective Database Registry Study of the Harms Study Group
Prof. Eda Tahir Turanlı	Dr. Michael Lenardo Dr. Daniel Reich	National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS	USA	Multiple Sclerosis Genome Research	2019 – To date
Yesim Yasin	The Reproductive Health Working Group RHWG	Various	Lebanon, Occupied Palestinian Territory, Qatar	Gendered Bodies And Reproduction In The Arab Countries and Turkey
Ozgul Gok	National Science Foundation NSF		USA	Cardiac investigation of hypoxic resistance in vivo and in vitro
Ozgul Gok	Dr. Aiste Jekabsone	LSMU Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Institute of Pharmaceutical Technologies	Lithuania	Investigation of the effect of drug-loaded nanoparticles on cardioplegia and in vitro studies
Ozgul Gok	COST Study Groups	European Cooperation in Science and Technology	EU	Cancer nanomedicine – from the bench to the bedside In vitro 3-D total cell guidance and fitness Delivery of Antisense RNA Therapeutics
Prof. Enis Ozyar	Commercial Collaboration	TheraPanacea	France	AI solutions for radiotherapy
Prof. Enis Ozyar	Commercial Collaboration	Viewray Inc	USA	MRI-guided radiation therapy
Prof. Enis Ozyar	Rare Cancer Network Group