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Dr.Ayça Bal Öztürk’s research article with the heading "Sponge-like chitosan-based nanostructured antibacterial material as a topical hemostat" was published in “JOURNAL of APPLIED POLYMER”.

Prof. Dr. Özer Bekaroğlus’ research article titled “Synthesis, characterization, and DFT study of novel metallo phtalocyanines with four carboranyl clusters as photosensitisers for the photodynamic therapy of breast cancer cells” was published in “European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences”.

The First year students of İstinye University School of Pharmacy received their white coats as symbols of clinical service and care at the The White Coat ceremony held on the 5th of January 2019 at the Topkapı Campus of Istinye University.

Prof. Dr. Özer Bekaroğlu made his speech titled ”Bilimsel Araştırmalarda Etik Dışı Davranışlar ve Önleme Çabaları”.

Prof. Dr. Özer Bekaroğlus’ reaserach article with heading “Synthesis, Conductivity and Impedance Studies on across adjacent ring formed new metallo phthalocyanines“ was published in “European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry”.

Bayer Quality Project Manager, Mehmet Çalıkoğlu, gave a seminary to our second year students headed “The role of of Analytical Chemistry in the Quality Control of Pharmaceutical Products”.

At the event organized by the Events Commission of the Faculty of Pharmacy, sophomores along with the Events Committee members in the School of Pharmacy at Istinye University visited Ali Raif Pharmaceutical Company. Students saw all the details abouts drugs from the drug’s planning phase to the final product and had a chance to ask what they wondered in the question and answer section.

In this activity, which has been previously organized and scheduled the Faculty of Pharmacy Activities Commission, Yeni Moda Pharmacy Store, which has been running for 120 years, was visited by Istinye University Faculty of Pharmacy students and the members of the Pharmacy Activities Commission.

A seminar entitled “Johannes Guthenberg University and Istinye University Faculty of Pharmacy Education”; Nihan Önal, a pharmacy undergraduate student at Johannes Gutenberg University-Germany, who completed her 2-month summer internship within the scope of Erasmus+ Internship Mobility Program at Istnye University and Sena Onuk, a pharmacy sophemore student at Istinye University, gave a seminar on differences between pharmacy education in Turkey ad in Germany.

Nihal Önal, junior student in the School of Pharmacy at Johannes Gutenberg University-Germany, completed her 2-month summer internship at our university. Johannes Gutenberg University, our partner university, will be accepting Faculty of Pharmacy students (at Istinye University) in the context of Erasmus+ Internship Mobility Program in the following years. We had an interview with Nihan Önal about her internship and educational differences in pharmacy between Turkey and Germany.

The first meeting of a series of meetings entitled “'Rational Drug Use Evaluation Meeting” organized by the Turkish Ministry of Health TITCK (Turkish Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency), which will be carried out throughout Turkey, was held on July 23rd 2018 (Monday) in Giresun-Turkey.

A TUBITAK-2209A grant proposal submitted by Engin Deniz Ulukaya and Ece Nur Müftüoğlu, sophomore students in the Faculty of Pharmacy at Istinye University, was accepted by TUBITAK. Deniz and Ece will work on the project as researchers under the supervision of Asst. Prof. Dr. Cenk A Andaç on the development of novel anticancer agents against chemotherapy-resistant cancer stem cells.

The dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy at Istinye Universit, Prof. Dr. Abdullah Olgun, gave a speech on “Evidence-based anti-aging in choemeetics” at a TV program so called Turkish Chosmetics Sector.

Our faculty member Prof. Dr. Semra Sardaş talked about the side effects of weight loss pills available in the market live on A-Haber news.

Our faculty members Assoc. Prof. İnci KAYIN, teaching assitants Elif YAVUZ DOKGÖZ, Ayşegül ÇALIŞKAN and research assistant Meltem GÜLEÇ attended the Bioinformatics Forum on "Genome Sequencing and Bioinformatics" at Gebze Technical University.

A new research article entitled “How does infection with Human Papillomavirus 16 and 18 impact on DNA damage and repair in cervical cells and peripheral blood?”, authored by Prof. Dr. Semra ŞARDAŞ, was published at OMICS A Journal of Integrative Biology.

Teaching assistant Ayşegül Çalışkan, academic staff in the faculty of pharmacy, published a book chapter entitled “New Perspectives on Human transcriptional Overview and Regulatory Network”.

Faculty of Pharmacy students Süleyman Efe Ozkan and Bester Sahin attended the 5th National Pharmacy Students Congress to present their laboratory work under the supervision of Asst. Prof. Dr. Ayça Bal Öztürk.

The May 14th Pharmacy Day, organized by the Faculty of Pharmacy at Istinye University, was celebrated at the Topkapı Campuss of Istinye University on May 14th 2018 with the participation of Pharmacist Saliha USTA, a trustee Member of the 21st Century Anatolia Foundation Board, Pharmacist Kazım Dinç, the former Minister of Health, and Pharmacist Specialist Buket Hekimhan Bayraktar.

Asst. Prof. Dr. Ayça Bal Öztürk published a research article "pH sensitive functionalized hyperbranched polyester based nanoparticulate system for the receptor-mediated targeted cancer therapy" at “INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POLYMERIC MATERIALS AND POLYMERIC BIOMATERIALS”.

Faculty of Pharmacy Student Süleyman Efe Özkan's grant proposal entitled “Development of Bionic for use in Tissue Engineering Application” was accepted by TUBITAK-2209B programme.

Faculty of Pharmacy faculty member Asst. Prof. Dr. BALI Ayça OZTURK went to Italy to attend a PhD thesis defense of Beatrice Micolli, a PhD student at Politecnico di Torino University-Italy, on "Where Integrated Electronics Meets Bio/Micro-Technology: From Synthetic Microstructures to Living Cells On-Chip".

Our Faculty staff Asst. Assoc. Dr. Ayça Bal Öztürk’s research article entitled “Interconnectable Dynamic Compression Bioreactors for Combinatorial Screening of Cell Mechanobiology in Three-dimensions" was published at ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces" (Impact Factor: 7.5).

Our faculty staff Asst. Prof. Dr. Cenk A. Andac’s research article entitled "Determination of Antibiotic Resistance and Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis Profiles Judinshapur Journal of Microbiology. Dr. Andac’s article is about development of antibiotics (penicillins, cephalosporins, carbapenems, fluoroquinolones, tetracyclines, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole) resistance in E. coli isolates collected from in-patients staying at hospital in Konya province, which poses a serious risk in the treatment of nosocomal infections in Turkey.

The students of Pharmacy Faculty at Istinye University wore their aprons with a ceremony held in the Topkapı Campus of Istinye University. The ceremony started with the speech of our student, Sena BÜYÜKBAŞ and continued with the speech of Abdullah OLGUN, Dean of Faculty of Pharmacy, about the importance of the day.

The event called The Use of Medicinal Plants in Korea which is organized by the Faculty of Pharmacy was held at our university with Dr. Su Hye LİM’s participation.

Dr. Ayça Bal Öztürk, member of our Pharmacy faculty published the research article titled "Controlled release profile of 5-fluorouracil loaded P (AAM-co-DMEAEMA) microgel prepared by free radical precipitation polymerization" in "Polymer Bulletin".

Dr. Cenk A. ANDAC, member of our Pharmacy faculty published the research article titled "Design, synthesis and cytotoxic activity of spiro (oxindole-3-3'-pyrrolidine) derivatives" in the journal of "Letters in Drug Design & Discovery"

Dr. Cenk A. ANDAÇ, member of our Pharmacy faculty participated as a guest speaker at the international conference about "NMR in Pharmaceutics, Phytotherapeutics and Medicine".