I am delighted to have made a modest contribution to the multi-center study entitled "The exposome of brain aging across 34 countries" published in Nature Medicine (doi: 10.1038/s41591-026-04302-z
Assist. Prof. Mehmet Ozansoy
About Us
OZANSOY LAB is being led by Mehmet Ozansoy, Ph.D. He is a molecular biologist working in the field of neuroscience since 2000. Our team focuses primarily on neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease and ALS. Specifically we are generating in vitro models of these disorders and the roles of regulatory RNAs in the molecular/cellular mechanisms of them. We have also research projects related with the clinical staging of the neurodegenerative disorders and several biomarkers.
In addition to that, we are interested and working in the field of neuro-oncology. Screening and evaluating of drug candidates in the context of gliomas is one of our research areas.
With the collaboration of Biomedical Engineering Department of Bahçeşehir University, we have established several in vitro models for studying the possible effect(s) of photobiomodulation and searching for its effects at the level of gene expression.
Our group is made up of graduate students (Ph.D. and MSc.) joined us from Neuroscience Ph.D. and Master Programmes and also students of medical school in Bahçeşehir University.
News
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19 April 2026
My Neuroscience Master Student Buket Aktaş has successfully completed her thesis entitled "The Effect of Glucocorticoid-treated Microglia on SH-SY5Y Cells: An In Vitro Model for a Potential Relationship between Chronic Stress and Neurodegeneration". I wish her all the best in her future career
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19 April 2026
My Neuroscience Master Student Yeganeh Abdian has successfully completed her thesis entitled "An In Vitro Study to Find Out the Possible Role of Procoagulatory Factors on the Phenotype and the Viability of SH-SY5Y and HMC3 Cells". I wish her all the best in her future career.
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26 October 2025
A new research article entitled "Cognitive Impairment in Tension-Type Headache is Associated with Altered Hippocampal Functional Conectivity" that my Ph.D. student Uğur Aylak and I have made contributions, has recently been accepted by a Cell Press Journal iScience, doi:10.1016/j.isci.2025.113850