Mehmet TANYUKSEL, MD

Professor of Medical Parasitology

Gulhane Military Medical Academy

Member of High Council of Science

Ankara/ Turkey

E-mail: mtanyuksel@gata.edu.tr

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Date of birth:              06/04/1964
Citizenship:                 Turkish

NAME                                  POSITION TITLE

Mehmet Tanyuksel               Professor

EDUCATION/TRAINING
INSTITUTION AND LOCATION                                  DEGREE      YEAR     FIELD OF STUDY

Gulhane Military Medical Academy, Ankara/ Turkey    M.D.              1987      School of Medicine 

Gulhane Military Medical Academy, Ankara/ Turkey    Residency     1993      Medical Parasitology

Current position:

Professor of Medical Parasitology, Department of Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology and Member of High Council of Science of Gulhane Military Medical Academy, Ankara, Turkey

Awards and Memberships:

Research Fellow, Division of Infectious Diseases, Departments of Medicine, Pathology, and Microbiology, University of Virginia, Virginia, USA (2000-2001)

Advanced Laboratory Training Course in Infectious Disease Research, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Scholarship in ICDDR,B, Dhaka, Bangladesh (2003)

Research Fellow, Division of Infectious Diseases, Stanford University, USA “Entamoeba histolyticatRNA genotyping and DNA microarray analysis and CGH” (2006)

Award, the Turkish Academy of Science (TÜBA) (2009)

Award, the Turkish Academy of Science (TÜBA) (2010)

Member, Turkish Parasitology Society, Turkey

Member, KLIMIK, Turkey

Member, European Union- Strengthening the Epidemiological Surveillance and Control of Communicable Disease System (ESCCDS) in Turkey Working Group, Ministry of Health, Turkey

Member, Ministry of Health –Parasitology Residency Council

Member, Turkish Parasitology Society-Parasitology Residency Education and Ethics Committee

Member, Turkish Microbiology Society- Board Committee

Member, Ministry of Health –Parasitic Diseases Scientific Committee

Member, Ministry of Health -Laboratory Regulatory Committee

Member, Ministry of Health – Scientific Commission of Regulation on Traditional and Complementary Medicine Practices

Member, 5th International Mugla Beekeeping & Pine Honey Congress Scientific Committee

President, Apitherapy Local Scientific Commission (LSC) Apimondia 2017, Istanbul, Turkey

Research interests: Apitherapy studies (honey, propolis, etc.), regulation of apitherapy practices 

Scientific background: More than 100 publications in Turkish and international scientific journals in medical parasitology and complementary medicine including apitherapy; editors in 5 books (turkish), author/co-author in 32 chapters of book (2 english), more than 700 citations, “h” index: 15. 

Languages: Turkish (mother-tongue), English