Affiliation : Director of Aziz Sancar Institute of Experimental Medicine & Head of Department of Immunology, Istanbul University, Turkey
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Gunnur Deniz graduated from Istanbul University, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Biology in 1985 and received her M.Sc. degree in Physiology in 1989. Between 1990-1994 she was granted by the Turkish Republic Higher Education Council (YÖK) with a PhD fellowship to study at the Department of Immunology, University of Liverpool and received her PhD degree in immunology in 1994. Following completion of her PhD in 1994, she returned to Istanbul University and continued her academic and research activities in the Institute of Experimental Medicine (Aziz Sancar DETAE), Department of Immunology. She is the chairman of the Immunology Department at Aziz Sancar DETAE since 2002 and has also been working as a director of Aziz Sancar DETAE since 2016. She is the past president of the Turkish Society of Immunology. She is the congress president of 6th European Congress of Immunology. Most of her research is focused on functional and phenotypical characterization of Natural Killer – NK cells. Active research topics include the characterization of NK cells especially in allergic diseases and studies in the field of haematological diseases and immune deficiencies. She has national and international publications and book chapters, received more than 4000 citations and her H-factor is 25.
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