Prof. Ayşegül Taylan Özkan
Prof. Ayşegül Taylan Özkan (MD, PhD)
ORCID: 0000-0001-8421-3625 · Google Scholar · ResearchGate
After graduating from Ege University Faculty of Medicine, she worked in various units of the Ministry of Health. With scholarships during and after her doctorate she trained in the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan and Israel, and completed an internship in Geneva with a WHO TDR Research Leadership fellowship. She has served as professor at Hitit University and TOBB ETÜ Faculties of Medicine. She has taken part as researcher and coordinator in nearly 40 national and international projects, published more than 150 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and presented over 300 papers. Her work focuses on parasitology, vectors, vector-borne diseases and zoonoses, and biotherapy (hirudotherapy, apitherapy and larval therapy). She is Secretary General of the International Biotherapy Society and, as of 1 October 2024, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Cyprus International University.