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Korkut Uygun is a Turkish chemical engineering scientist and a medical researcher.
Uygun is married to Başak Saygılı Uygun who is also a medical researcher. Uygun couple has a daughter called Elif Naz[1].
Uygun received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Wayne State University in 2004 [2]. After working as a post-doctor in the research laboratory of the department that he received his Ph.D. for 2 years, he bacame a research associate in the "Center for Engineering in Medicine" of the Massachusetts General Hospital[3] in 2006. He bacame the leader of the "Organ Engineering Group" in the center. In 2008, he was promoted to "instructor in surgery (Bioengineering)" at Harvard Medical School[4].
Work
Research objective of Uygun is to recondition discarded donor organs in order increase the supply of of transplantable organs, and utilize the unrecoverable organs as cell sources for cell transplantation or in bioartificial organ substitutes (such as bioartificial livers).
In 2010, a team led by Uygun in the "Center for Engineering in Medicine" at Massachusetts General Hospital has developed a technique that someday may allow growth of transplantable replacement livers[5]. Uygun's technique developed functional, transplantable rat liver grafts[6]. The study was published in Nature Medicine[7]. Uygun highlighted the significance of his work by saying "As far as we know, a transplantable liver graft has never been constructed in a laboratory setting before"[8].
Awards
In 2008, Uygun was awarded an NIH K99/R00 - Pathway to Independence Award: "Computer-Aided Development of a Liver Organ Culture System"[9].
In 2009, Uygun was awarded by the National Science Foundation for a very challenging research project, "Liver Reengineering"[10].
References
- ^ Lab News of 2010 (HTML), U.S.A.: Wayne State University, 2 April 2010, retrieved 15 June 2010
- ^ Lab News of 2004 (HTML), U.S.A.: Wayne State University, 24 June 2004, retrieved 15 June 2010
- ^ Lab News of 2006 (HTML), U.S.A.: Wayne State University, 7 July 2006, retrieved 15 June 2010
- ^ Lab News of 2008 (HTML), U.S.A.: Wayne State University, 28 April 2008, retrieved 15 June 2010
- ^ Mass. General researchers develop functional, transplantable rat liver grafts, Massachusetts General Hospital - News Releases, 13 June 2010, retrieved 15 June 2010
- ^ Mass. General researchers develop functional, transplantable rat liver grafts, e! Science News, 13 June 2010, retrieved 15 June 2010
- ^ Basak E Uygun, Alejandro Soto-Gutierrez, Hiroshi Yagi, Maria-Louisa Izamis, Maria A Guzzardi, Carley Shulman, Jack Milwid, Naoya Kobayashi, Arno Tilles, Francois Berthiaume, Martin Hertl, Yaakov Nahmias, Martin L Yarmush, Korkut Uygun. Organ reengineering through development of a transplantable recellularized liver graft using decellularized liver matrix. Nature Medicine, 2010; DOI: 10.1038/nm.2170
- ^ Functional, Transplantable Rat Liver Grafts: Discarded Livers Have Potential to Be Reengineered Into Usable Replacement Organs, ScienceDaily, 15 June 2010, retrieved 15 June 2010
- ^ Lab News of 2008 (HTML), U.S.A.: Wayne State University, 28 April 2008, retrieved 15 June 2010
- ^ Lab News of 2009 (HTML), U.S.A.: Wayne State University, 1 September 2009, retrieved 15 June 2010