- Director of the Koç University Organ Transplant Immunology Research Center of Excellence (TIREX)
- Directed the Collaborative Transplant Study CTS, in which more than 400 organ transplant centers participate.
- Board Member of the Transplantation Immunology and Genetics Society (TİGED); President of the German Society for Immunogenetics (DGI) for 2010-2012.
- Associate Editor of the journal Transplantation
- Has more than 200 articles published in international journals.
- Some of the awards received:
- World Organ Transplant Society (TTS) New Wing Leader Award - 2009
- German Organ Transplant Society (DTG) Transplantation Immunology Award - 2005
- German Society for Immunogenetics (DGI) Research Award - 2002
- European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT) Research Award - 1995
- Main clinical and research areas of interest:
- Tissue typing analyses,
- Organ and bone marrow transplant immunology,
- Kidney, liver and heart transplantation,
- Transplantation of highly sensitized patients,
- Cross-over (paired exchange) kidney transplantation,
- Epitope-level matching of organ recipients and donors,
- Transplantation of organs from elderly donors.
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