Tuncay Delibasi

I graduated from Hacettepe University Medical School, which is one of the leading academic medical centers in Turkey, in 1993. I completed my internal medicine residency in Ankara Numune Teaching and Research Hospital in 1998.

I completed my endocrinology fellowship in 2003 in Ankara University, School of Medicine. I worked as a postdoctoral fellow at University of California (UCLA) department of pharmacogenomics and clinical pharmacology between 2004-2006. Then I moved to Miami as a research fellow at Miami University, Center of Pharmacogenomics and visiting in Diabetes Research Center, Islet Cell Transplantation Unit in 2006.

I have been visiting at ISMETT, Islet Cell Transplantation Unit in 2008 at Palermo. Soon after returning back to Turkey, I served as a founder and clinical director of department of endocrinology and metabolism at Diskapi Teaching and Research Hospital between 2008-2015.

I have also been holding professor position at Hacettepe University, School of Medicine, Department of internal medicine since 2011. I am the founder of Cell Therapy & Regenerative Medicine & Genomic Research and Application Center (ADACELL) accommodating at Diskapi Teaching and Research Hospital in Ankara. This center is first and currently the only center performing human islet cell isolation on regular basis for research purposes in Turkey.

I was the deputy director and board member of Advanced Medical Technology Education, Application and Research Center of Hacettepe University between 2014-2015. This unit is utilized as the central laboratory of the university and also provides a platform for multidisciplinary research projects. I am currently chairman of human ethics committee and chairman of experimental animals ethics committee at Diskapi Teaching and Research Hospital.