Prof. İffet İrem Tatlı Çankaya

Prof. İffet İrem Tatlı Çankaya

Prof. İffet İrem Tatlı Çankaya
Hacettepe University, Faculty of Pharmacy — Pharmacognosy / Pharmaceutical Botany

She graduated from Hacettepe University Faculty of Pharmacy in 1996. In 1997 she began as a research assistant in the Department of Pharmacognosy, earning her M.Sc. in 1999 and Ph.D. in 2004. She was appointed Associate Professor in 2009 and Professor in 2014 in Pharmacognosy and Pharmaceutical Botany.

During 2000–2002, 2004, and 2012 she conducted advanced research at the National Center for Natural Products Research and the School of Pharmacy, University of Mississippi (USA). As a visiting scientist she worked at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Lille-2 (France, 2006); the Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Lublin Medical University (Poland, 2014); and the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alabama (USA, 2019).

Between 2017 and 2020 she served as consultant and primary researcher for the TÜBİTAK-MAM project on the “Development of Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products.” She has been a member of Scientific Commissions for Phytotherapy and Homeopathy under the Turkish Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, including the Dietary Supplements Approval Commission. She is a member of the Hacettepe University Ethics Committee for Cosmetic Clinical Research and Deputy Director of the Traditional and Complementary Medicine (GETAT) Center.

Internationally, she is an appointed expert for the European Pharmacopoeia (Expert Groups 13A and 13B — Herbal Drugs and Herbal Preparations — and the Working Group on Homeopathic Products) and serves on United States Pharmacopeia (USP) Expert Panels. She is married and the mother of one child.