İZMİR BİYOTIP VE GENOM MERKEZİ

T.R. No. 29290, dated 9 March 2015, accepted by the Turkish Grand National Assembly on 16/02/2015. With the decision number 2015/7321 published in the Official Gazette, it was decided to change the name of the Hemodialysis-Transplantation Institute within the Rectorate of Dokuz Eylül University to Izmir International Biomedicine and Genome Institute, and our institute started its educational activities. The first student recruitment to our institute was made in the 2016-2017 academic year. The Department of Genomic Sciences and Biotechnology was established within our institute and started its educational activities. Master's and PhD students study in this department. There are 1 associate professor and 3 doctor faculty members in the institute staff within the department. These faculty members carry out our academic activities by assigning them from other academic units of our university. Our Biomedicine and Health Technologies department, which was opened at the establishment of our institute, has not started its educational activities yet. He started teaching with the Molecular Biology and Genetics Master's and Doctoral Programs affiliated with the Department of Genome Sciences and Molecular Biotechnology at the Izmir International Biomedicine and Genome Institute, which was established on 16/02/2015. With the senate decision numbered 439 meeting dated 07/04/2015 and the YÖK Board decision dated 28/04/2015, the "Department of Genomic Sciences and Molecular Biotechnology" and the "Department of Biomedicine and Health Technologies" were established. In its initial establishment phase, our institute operated within the Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Center until February 2018, and after this date, the center and the institute continue their activities separately. Our university rector, Prof., during the establishment phase of our institute. Dr. Mehmet Füzün, our founding director Prof.Dr. It was opened with the participation of Mehmet Öztürk, Minister of Science, Industry and Technology Fikri Işık, Izmir Governor Mustafa Toprak, Nobel Prize winner Sir Tim Hunt, as well as many local and foreign scientists. Our institute started its activities in the same building with the Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Center during its initial establishment phase and currently continues its activities in the same building.