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Congress Information:
Venue: The 1st INTERNATIONAL NEU DESAM BIOTECHNOLOGY CONGRESS will be held as a hybrid conference at Near East University, Nicosia, Northern Cyprus.

Dates

October 17-20, 2024

Language

The official language of the congress is English, and all plenary lectures, panels, sessions, oral, and poster presentations will be conducted in English. The congress proceedings book will also be published in English.

Abstract Book and Oral Presentation Publications

The congress abstract book will be published digitally in English. Accepted oral presentations will also be considered for publication in a special issue of the Cyprus Journal of Medical Sciences. (CJMS) (CJMS is an ESCI journal indexed in many databases including ULAKBIM and Web of Science). Participation in this publication is optional.

Congress Organization Secretariat
Dorana Tourism will handle all secretarial tasks as the professional congress organizer, allowing us to focus on scientific content. For any requests and inquiries, please contact us at [email protected].

Congress Honorary President

  • Prof. Dr. İrfan Suat Günsel – Near East University, Chairman of the Board of Trustees

President of the Congress

  • Prof. Dr. Tamer Şanlıdağ – Near East University, Rector

Congress General Secretary

  • Assoc. Prof. Cenk Serhan Özverel – Near East University, Director of DESAM Research Institute

Scientific Committee

  • Prof. Dr. Tamer Şanlıdağ (Near East University, DESAM Research Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus)
  • Prof. Dr. Seda Vatansever (Manisa Celal Bayar University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Histology and Embryology, Manisa, Turkey)
  • Prof. Dr. Murat Sayan (Kocaeli University Hospital, PCR Unit, Kocaeli, Turkey)
  • Prof. Dr. Dilber Uzun Özşahin (University of Sharjah, College of Health Sciences, Department of Medical Diagnostic Imaging, Sharjah, UAE)
  • Prof. Dr. Pinar Tülay (Near East University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Genetics, Nicosia, Cyprus)
  • Assoc. Prof. Cenk Serhan Özverel (Near East University, DESAM Research Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus)
  • Prof. Dr. Beyza Ulusoy (Near East University, Department of Food Hygiene and Technology, Nicosia, Cyprus)
  • Prof. Dr. Hasan Mandal (Istanbul Technical University, Rector, Former President of TÜBİTAK, Istanbul, Turkey)
  • Prof. Dr. Engin Umut Akkaya (Bilkent University, Department of Chemistry, Ankara, Turkey)
  • Prof. Dr. Shadi Albarqouni (University of Bonn, Professor of Computational Medical Imaging, AI Young Investigator Group Leader at Helmholtz AI, Affiliate Scientist at Technical University of Munich, Germany)
  • Prof. Dr. Georges El Fakhri (Yale University, Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, USA)
  • Dr. Onur Bilenoğlu (Diagnotech Biotechnology, General Manager, Turkey)
  • Dr. Gülten Tuncel Dereboylu (Near East University, Experimental Health Sciences Research Center, Nicosia, Cyprus)
  • Dr. Ahmet Çağlar Özketen (Near East University, Experimental Health Sciences Research Center, Nicosia, Cyprus)
  • Dr. Gökçe Akan (Near East University, Experimental Health Sciences Research Center, Nicosia, Cyprus)
  • Assoc. Prof. Dr. Buket Baddal (Near East University, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Nicosia, Cyprus)

Organizing Committee

  • Prof. Dr. Seda Vatansever,
  • Prof. Dr. Murat Sayan,
  • Prof. Dr. Dilber Uzun Özsahin,
  • Prof. Dr. Pınar Tülay,
  • Assoc. Prof. Cenk Serhan Özverel,
  • Prof. Dr. Beyza Ulusoy,
  • Dr. Nazife Sultanoğlu,
  • Dr. Cemile Bağkur,
  • Dr. Erdal Şanlıdağ,
  • Dr. Aysegul Bostancı Menteş,
  • MSc. Nadire Kıyak,
  • MSc. Melis Kalaycı