BAU Medicine Faculty Member Assoc. Prof. Serdar Durdağı has been granted an incentive award within the Aziz Sancar Science, Service and Incentive Awards of TUSEB (HEALTH INSTITUTES of TURKEY). Assoc. Prof. Serdar Durdağı received TÜBİTAK Incentive Award in 2016.
Held for the first time this year, the Aziz Sancar Science, Service and Incentive Awards of TUSEB found their owners. Fahrettin Keleştemur, the President of TUSEB, gave the keynote speech at the ceremony which the Minister of Health Ahmet Demircan, numerous counsellors of the ministry of health, and many scientists participated in. Keleştemur read the message from nobel prize winner scientist Aziz Sancar.
The Minister of Health Ahmet Demircan, who gave a speech after Keleştemur, by stating Turkey needs qualified people, said that ‘Turkey comes together with the Turkish siblings other than itself and the people whom it raised within its boundaries and sent out the world. We all are people who owe to Turkey and humanity. We shall certainly pay this debt. Turkey needs qualified people. We will never loose our connections at this point. Apart from Turkey, our other siblings’ coming here today and participating in our studies shows us that our world has extended beyond our geography.’
‘ We stand still at this place where we lost connection with generating knowledge. We are on the phase of regaining our strength. The most important step of this, is to join generating knowledge. The significant flares just like Aziz Sancar will light up the way. We will make our way faster in the direction they point us. Today, giving this award on behalf of Aziz Sancar is a matter of honour and pride for me’, Demircan asserted. Stating that they had founded TUSEB for great purposes, Minister Demircan said that ‘ Health should not be a branch that is below the other research institutions in Turkey, we established it for the purpose of displacing TUBITAK’s place.’
The Minister Demircan granted the awards to 6 scientists after giving his speech. Later on, the family picture is taken.
Prof. Engin Umut Akkaya is granted the Science Award for his studies in chemistry. Assoc. Dr. Oktay Algın won the incentive award owing to giving new attraction protocol or modality for the central nervous system disease to the medical literature, BAU Faculty Member Assist. Prof. Deniz Atasoy, Assoc. Prof. Serdar Durdağı, Assoc. Prof. Özgür Şahin and Assoc. Dr. Pınar Yılgör Huri have won the incentive award with their studies respectively in the field of physiology, molecular biophysics, and cancer
TUSEB Aziz Sancar Science, Service and Incentive Awards are given to the scientists who have internationally made significant contributions to science with their studies on health science and technologies in order to provide service to the country and humanity, and to people who have given outstanding service to science, and to individuals who have proved that they are qualified for providing the significant contributions to science in the future with their studies.
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