Partners

We have currently ongoing scientific collaboration with the following principal investigators and companies:

Eva Szegezdi (Galway, Ireland): Senior Research Lecturer in Cancer Biology at the Apoptosis Research Centre and Director of the Blood Cancer Network Ireland (BCNI), University of Galway.

ANYO Labs (Goteborg, Sweden): SME specialist on in silico drug discovery via AI/ML approaches.

Leif Eriksson (Goteborg, Sweden): Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Goteborg.

Andreas Limmer (Erlangen, Germany): Research Group Leader at the Clinic for Cardiosurgery, University of Erlangen.

Philippe Krebs (Bern, Switzerland): Associate Professor at the Institute of Pathology, University of Bern.

Ivana Nemcovicova (Bratislava, Slovakia): Head of the Department of Viral Immunology, Biomedical Research Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences.

Erika Balint (Budapest, Hungary): Assistant Professor at the Department of Organic Chemistry and Technology, Budapest University of Technology and Economics.

COVALAB SAS (Bron, France): SME provider of antibodies and antibody-conjugates.

Olivier Micheau (Dijon, France): Research Director at INSERM UMR1231.

e-NIOS Applications Private Company (Athens, Greece): SME specialist in in silico analysis of -omics data.

Gökhan Karakülah (Izmir, Turkey): Director of IBG Bioinformatics Platform (IBG-BIP), Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Center (IBG).

Meriel Biosciences (Izmir, Turkey).

Duygu Sag (Izmir, Turkey): Associate Professor at the Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Dokuz Eylul University; and Research Group Leader at the Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Center (IBG)

Our current clinical collaborators are:

Fatma Hüsniye Dilek: Medical Pathology, Atatürk Education and Research Hospital, Izmir Katip Celebi University.
Osman Nuri Dilek: General Surgery Clinic, Atatürk Education and Research Hospital, Izmir Katip Celebi University.
Yavuz Doğan: Microbiology Department and DEU Blood Bank, Dokuz Eylul University Hospital.
Yilmaz Özkul: Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Atatürk Education and Research Hospital, Izmir Katip Celebi University.
Gökce Tanyerı Toker: Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Atatürk Education and Research Hospital, Izmir Katip Celebi University.
Huriye Erbak Yılmaz: Clinical Biochemistry, Atatürk Education and Research Hospital, Izmir Katip Celebi University.

Some of these partners are members of these projects:

CHIRON:

CHIRON (www.trail4life.eu/chiron) is an MSCA-SE project funded by the European Commission (#101130240) with nine academic and private sector partners in seven countries (Greece, Hungary, Ireland, France, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey). Its main goals are to better understand how tumours avoid the immune system and to make the tumours sensitive again towards cell death. Dr. Wingender serves as CHIRON’s Project Coordinator.

RareBoost:

RareBoost (https://rareboost.ibg.edu.tr) is an ERA Chairs project funded by the European Commission (#952346). It aims to increase the rare disease research and innovation capability of the Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Center (IBG) and to facilitate its goal to become a leading basic and translational research centre for rare diseases. Dr. Wingender serves as RareBoost’s Project Coordinator.

We gratefully acknowledge the ongoing funding and support by the following organizations:

European Commission (EC)

European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA)

TÜBITAK (Scientific and Technological Research Institution of Turkey)