Dr. Nuhan Purali

Dr. Nuhan Purali
Department of Biophysics Sihhiye Ankara, Hacettepe University,Medical Faculty,Turkey, Email: npurali@hacettepe.edu.tr

Biography

Prof. Nuhan Purali was born in 1961, ?zmir Turkey, educated from Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine as a medical doctor in 1987. 1988-1992 worked as a research assistant and resident student in pharmacology at Istanbul University. 1990-1997 worked at Karolinska Institutet as doctoral student. 1997 received his Ph.D. in the field of Neurophysiology. Since, 1998 and 2012 working at Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine as a faculty member and Chairman of Biophysical Department, respectively. His primary research is focused on to mechanisms of mechano-electrical transduction, cellular electrophysiology and imaging methods, ion channel diseases and biomaterials. Presently, together with his team he is working on a project aimed at cloning and molecular characterization of the mechanosensitive ion channel complex in the stretch receptor neuron

Research Interest

1.Mechanisms of sensory transduction 2.Cellular electrophysiology and imaging methods 3.Channelopathies 4.Biomaterials