{"id":494,"date":"2026-02-03T08:45:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T08:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifesciences.agu.edu.tr\/?page_id=494"},"modified":"2026-02-03T08:45:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T08:45:58","slug":"turgay-dalkara","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/lifesciences.agu.edu.tr\/index.php\/turgay-dalkara\/","title":{"rendered":"Turgay Dalkara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-495 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/lifesciences.agu.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/TD-300x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lifesciences.agu.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/TD-300x300.webp 300w, http:\/\/lifesciences.agu.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/TD-150x150.webp 150w, http:\/\/lifesciences.agu.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/TD-500x500.webp 500w, http:\/\/lifesciences.agu.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/TD.webp 554w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Prof. Dr. Turgay Dalkara<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Director of Institute of Neurological Sciences and Psychiatry<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Hacettepe University, Ankara, TR<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prof. Dr. Turgay Dalkara graduated from Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine in 1975. He completed his neurology specialization and earned his doctorate in pharmacology at the same university. He pursued postdoctoral studies at Montreal McGill University for 2 years between 1982-84. Between 1986 and 2024, he served as a faculty member at Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine and is currently affiliated with the Departments of Neurosciences and Molecular Biology and Genetics at Bilkent University. Additionally, he held a joint appointment at Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital for 28 years, spanning from 1992 to 2020.<\/p>\n<p>He is a distinguished member of several academies, including the Turkish Academy of Sciences, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and Academia Europa. He has received numerous awards, including T\u00dcB\u0130TAK Science Award (2002), Vehbi Ko\u00e7 Award (2010), Kadir Has Outstanding Achievement Award (2014), Sedat Simavi Health Sciences Award (2019), and The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) Medicine Prize (2013).<\/p>\n<p>Renowned for his expertise in basic cerebrovascular diseases and migraine research, Prof. Dalkara actively serves\/d on the editorial boards of leading journals in the field and participated in project evaluation panels, including the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke &#8220;Stroke Progress Review Group&#8221; and the European Research Council &#8220;Advanced Grants Evaluation Panel. He played a pivotal role in establishing neuroscience PhD, MD\/PhD, and Neuroscience and Neurotechnology PhD programs in Turkey. From 2001 to 2019, Prof. Dalkara served as the Director of Hacettepe University Institute of Neurological Sciences and Psychiatry. He successfully published research conducted entirely in Turkey in high-impact journals such as Science and Nature Medicine.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Title: Neuroinflammatory signalling in migraine<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Dr. Turgay Dalkara Director of Institute of Neurological Sciences and Psychiatry Hacettepe University, Ankara, TR Biography Prof. Dr. Turgay Dalkara graduated from Hacettepe University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-494","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lifesciences.agu.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lifesciences.agu.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lifesciences.agu.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lifesciences.agu.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lifesciences.agu.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lifesciences.agu.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496,"href":"http:\/\/lifesciences.agu.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/494\/revisions\/496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lifesciences.agu.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}