Ayse Basak Engin

Atilla ENGIN M.D., Ph.D. (in biochemistry). Professor of General Surgery at Gazi University Medical Faculty. Research interests: Molecular aspect of obesity, the effects of signaling molecules and exosomes on obesity, breast cancer and aging. Metabolic pathways in the crosstalk between neuronal and other cellular receptors. Prof Engin received doctorate degree in Biochemistry from the University of Hacettepe and he completed Specialty Board Certificate in General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine. His doctoral studies led to discovery of the relationship between the cancer growth-rate and tissue glutathione concentrations, and these works have been cited for several times and won the “Science Award in Surgery”. Prof. Engin is one of the pioneer scientists in experimental surgery. His nationally and internationally funded research projects’ findings have been published in more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals and cited in more than 2400 international journals and books. While some of these outcomes won national and international awards, some of them were registered and included into scientific databases. Prof Engin has written 30 chapters in five international books and edited four of them. Prof.Engin was trained on endocrine surgery with “JICA fellowship award” in Japan. He attended “breast cancer and Milan trials” courses that were organized by The Breast Unit of the National Cancer Institute of Milan. He was among the founding members of the “Turkish Society of Endoscopic and Laparoscopic Surgery”. In a publicly available database of 100,000 top-scientists, that provides standardized information on citations, h-index, co-authorship adjusted hm-index, citations to papers in different authorship positions and a composite indicator according to a global study by Stanford University, Prof. Engin with the career-long data ranked among the "Top 2% Scientists of the World Ranking".