Prof. Uğur Uslu
Prof. Uğur Uslu was born in Konya in 1969. He completed his primary, secondary and high school education in Konya and graduated from Selçuk University in 1993. He earned his PhD in 2003, associate professorship in 2008 and full professorship in 2014. From 2020 to 2024 he served as a faculty member in the Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Selçuk University.
Since 5 January 2024 he has been Chair of the Department of Parasitology at Istanbul Medeniyet University Faculty of Medicine.
In his academic and administrative career he served as vice dean (2013–2016), faculty board member, and Erasmus, Mevlana and Farabi coordinator; he was also Director of Selçuk University Kadınhanı Faik İçil Vocational School (2016–2020).
He authored book chapters on “Maggot Debridement Therapy” and “Meatborne Parasitic Zoonoses” for international publishers. To date he has contributed to 87 international and national scientific articles, 54 oral presentations and 16 national research projects, and has written chapters in 30 national books on topics including the history of maggot debridement therapy, the morphology and biology of Lucilia sericata, aseptic larva production and sterilization, and Crimean–Congo haemorrhagic fever.
In 2016 he received First Prize in the Book category under Selçuk University’s Scientific Studies and Awards Programme, and in 2018 the Konya Health Tourism Award. He serves as assistant editor for international journals and as editor for national journals and books.
With TÜBİTAK scholarships he conducted research in the USA and Austria, and has worked as researcher and faculty member in Malaysia, Poland and Israel. His scientific work focuses mainly on maggot debridement therapy and biotherapy applications.
He is principal investigator of a TÜBİTAK 1003 Priority Areas R&D Project (funded 2025) in GETAT: development of a nanofiber wound dressing loaded with Lucilia sericata larval secretions/secretomes and evaluation of its therapeutic and antimicrobial efficacy.
Since 10 March 2026 he has been a member of the Ministry of Health Maggot Debridement Therapy Commission and of the Medical Product and Device Development Advisory Board of the Turkish Traditional and Complementary Medicine Institute under TÜSEB. He teaches in summer school programmes at universities in Organisation of Turkic States member countries and chairs organisation of international congresses in the Netherlands and Italy.
Biography and Expertise of Prof. Uğur Uslu
Country: Turkey