Our mission is to lead a wide spectrum of scientific research to understand, treat, and prevent infectious diseases. In doing so, we aim to form a bridge in between the laboratory bench and clinical level of findings.
The Research Center for Infectious Diseases is dedicated to having a better understanding of infectious agents and related diseases. The purpose is to investigate biological characteristics of pathogens, their evolving mechanisms and clinical behaviour, comparatively. Eventually we aim to combine our practical and theoretical knowledge to treat and prevent infectious diseases by conducting research on emerging vector-borne diseases, antimicrobial resistance, fungal and viral infections.
The challenges in the monitoring of infectious diseases after the earthquake in Türkiye in 2023, related to disease monitoring and providing solutions accordingly, was published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
KUISCID researchers have completed their study “BNT162b2 or CoronaVac as the Third Dose against Omicron: Neutralizing Antibody Responses among Transplant Recipients Who Had Received Two Doses of CoronaVac” and published it in Viruses Journal.
You are invited to our Hybrid Symposium of Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever on 9th of June 2021 at 14:00. The symposium will be broadcasted live on Hitit Kurumsal Youtube page.
The web symposium “COVID-19: One Year Of Experience and Beyond”, organized by our center, will take place on March 12, 2021 between 13:00 and 16:00.