KUISCID October 2022 Newsletter
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KOÇ UNIVERSITY İŞBANK CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES
OCTOBER 2022
This is a monthly newsletter from KUISCID. We present our research output and news about our activities.
PUBLICATION

What is Monkeypox Disease?

KUISCID researchers have published their monkeypox case study in “Journal of Infection” with clinical aspects and the detailed molecular analysis, implementing KUISCID study model “from clinics to lab”. 

 We congratulate all our researchers.

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PUBLICATION

Is Early Prognosis of COVID-19 Possible?

Since COVID-19 pandemic, although several studies were conducted to find parameters showing the prognosis of the disease, further research is still required. KUISCID researchers, in collaboration with Prof. Nurhan Özlü’s team have published their study related to alterations in host cell proteins following COVID-19 infection in the journal of “Proteomics Clinical Applications”. Plasma proteomes of COVID-19 patients from Turkey were systematically analyzed using mass spectrometry. Various severity grades (moderate, severe, and critical) were monitorized within different periods of the disease (early, inflammatory, and recovery). Significant alterations in protein expressions were considered to reconstruct the COVID-19 associated network that was further extended to connect viral and host proteins. Findings of the study points out the significance of detailed monitoring of biomarkers to find new therapeutic agents for early prognosis of infections. 

We congratulate all our researchers.

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NEWS

Follow Our Research

Follow the current outcomes of all KUISCID research projects from our website. Click here both for our publications and KUISCID news.

SEMINAR

KUISCID Science Talks: Prof. Ufuk Akçiğit

KUISCID hosted Prof. Ufuk Akçiğit, from University of Chicago Department of Economics for his speech “Economic aspects of science in Turkey”. Prof. Akçiğit evaluated the current research situation of Turkey and discussed the potent reasons for brain drain. KUISCID aims to continue the monthly science talks. Follow our social media for upcoming sessions.

 
NEWS

Visit of Prof. Cevayir Çoban

Prof. Cevayir Çoban from University of Tokyo, Department of Immunology visited KUISCID and met our researchers to discuss KUISCID research projects and clinical cases. Prof. Çoban has several high impact publications and ongoing research projects on malaria disease. Future collaborations were evaluated in the presence of literature examples of malaria studies.  We thank Prof. Çoban for her kind and fruitful visit.