Prof. Yasemin Alanay
Professor of Pediatrics and Pediatric Genetics; lead of the ACURARE undergraduate research group
Department of Pediatrics · School of Medicine Acıbadem Mehmet Ali Aydınlar University
About
Leads research on rare diseases and orphan drugs at ACURARE and mentors the ACURARE–ACUTBAT undergraduate research group.
- rare diseases
- orphan drugs
- clinical genetics
- undiagnosed diseases
Prof. Yasemin Alanay is a paediatrician and clinical geneticist at Acıbadem University School of Medicine and leads the ACURARE–ACUTBAT undergraduate research group. The Rare Diseases and Orphan Drugs Application and Research Center (ACURARE), founded in 2017, works to improve diagnosis and treatment in rare diseases, to increase scientific and clinical research and to raise patients' quality of life by bringing together clinicians, diagnostic laboratories, patient organisations, professional bodies and pharmaceutical companies.
Research output
- 314publications
- 6,409citations
- 46h-index
- 24projects
Figures as recorded in AVESİS, the university’s research information system · AVESİS profile.
Projects & funding
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Rapid next-generation sequencing for genetic diagnosis of rapidly deteriorating critically ill newborns and infants in neonatal and paediatric intensive care
Project team: Alanay Y., Özbek U., Hatırnaz Ng Ö., Akgün Doğan Ö., Özdemir Ö., Çıtak A., et al..
- Funder
- ABAPKO — ACU Scientific Research Projects Commission · Project Supported by Higher Education Institutions, BAP Research Project
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Developmental progress domains in ARID1B-related disorder: a multi-method, multi-centre prospective natural-history study
Project team: Akgün Doğan Ö., Sütçübaşı B., Alanay Y..
In the news
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.
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.
ACURARE Delegation Visited Masaryk University
Prof. Yasemin Alanay (@yaseminalanay ), Director of ACURARE, and Assoc. Prof. Peter Ng (@ngyy718 ) visited Prof. Pavel Krejci’s laboratory at Masaryk University.
