Education:
M.D., University of Istanbul, Fac. of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, 1954
Ph.D., Karolinska Institute, Department of Pathology, Stockholm, Sweden, Doctorate of Medicine, 1973
Field: Microspectrofluorometric procedures and their application to living cells.
Research Interests:
Research on microspectrofluorometry and fluorescence imaging in normal vs malignant, mutant and genetically deficient cells. Studies on metabolic control, microcompartmentation, intra- ( and Intercellular) communication, organelle interactions (and) multiorganelle complexes: all to be carried out in single living cells.
Recent Representative Publications:
Fluorescent Probes in Oncology, Imperial College Press, London and World Scientific Publications, Singapore. 2002.
Atlas of Cell Organelle Fluorescence, CRC PRESS, Boca Raton, Florida. In Press.
Most recent international Communications at the 7th World Congress on Advances in Oncology and 5th International Symposium on Molecular Medicine: Fluorescence spectral imaging of wild-type and mitochondrial DNA-deficient malignant cells in culture; toward fluorescence imaging by a Fourier interferometer; probing of molecular order vs molecular chaos.
Scientific collaboration with Photobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Paris and Microphysiology, Biology, Free University of Amsterdam.
Planned instrumental developments: Excitation- Emission Fluorescence Omaging by Fourier Interferometry, Combined Fluorescence and Photoacoustic Microscopy.
Potential biomedical applications in Cellular Pathology, Drug Trials, cytodiagnostics, cytoprognostics and therapeutics.
Potential biotechnological applications in Hydrogen production by algae, Food Industry and Enology.