Dr. Rengul Atalay
Mutlu Lab, Medicine-Pulmonary/Critical Care,
CanSyL, Cancer Systems Biology Research Lab., Graduate School of Informatics, METU, Ankara, Turkey.
Dr. Rengul Cetin-Atalay holds an MD degree and the PhD degree in Systems Biology and her research falls in the broad fields of cellular pathway analysis, protein bioinformatics, and biomedical-imaging. She has published extensively in the field of medicinal chemistry for the identification of small bioactive compounds acting on epithelial cells. She has been part of a European network for small molecule bioactivity characterization and international collaborations since her PhD at Univ Paris XI. During the last decade, she extended her studies on in silico discovery of novel therapeutic agents by the application of artificial intelligence and computational techniques on protein-small molecule target identification in close collaboration with UniProt group from European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge. She worked as a research assistant at Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France during her PhD (1992-1997), and as an assistant professor at Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, during her sabbatical leave in 2004. She is the recipient of several awards including Turkish Academy of Sciences Young Investigator Award (2002), UICC International Cancer Technology Transfer Award (2008), and Sanovel Pharmaceuticals Inc, Drug Research Award (2013), AASLD Foundation 2019 The liver Meeting AASLDF Award. She is a member of ISCB (International Society for Computational Biology), AACR (American Association of Cancer Research), AASLD (American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases), TMBA (Turkish Molecular Biology Association), EACR (European Association for Cancer Research), and EASL (European Association for the Study of the Liver).
Dr. Anil Gungor, MD
Dr. Gungor is Professor of Otolaryngology HNS and Pediatrics and the Director of Pediatric Otolaryngology HNS as well as the Director of the Louisiana Cleft Team for LSU Shreveport. Dr. Gungor is also a member of the Sleep Disorders Team led by the Neurology Department at LSU Shreveport and specializes in the surgical treatment of children with Obstructive Sleep Apnea. He has received several awards, including the Holtzclaw fellowship award and the Hansel award from the American Academy of Otolaryngic Allergy, and significant research support from both private and public sources including the Research Grant Award of the American Academy of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery and the National Institutes of Health research grant award. He has published several original journal articles and book chapters, with a significant body of published clinical research in pediatric ENT, allergy and sinus disease. Dr. Gungor is one of few researchers in the US investigating the role of nitric oxide in sinus disease. He is interested in the study of sinonasal aerodynamics and has published his theory on the aerodynamic model of the nose.