Bayram Yilmaz#
| Membership Number: | 7319 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | TURKEY |
| Homepage(s): | https://yilmazlab.org/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-2674-6535 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/bayram-yilmaz-259a0547 |
| Publication Link: | https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7006501958 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2024 July - present President of Dokuz Eylul University (Izmir, Türkiye)
- 2023 June - present Advisory Board Member, WHO (Collaborating Center, State University of New York at Albany)
- 2023 December - present Director, Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Center (Izmir, Türkiye)
- 2014 - 2018 and 2018-2022 FEPS Secretary General, Federation of European Physiological Societies (FEPS)
- 2016 - 2019 Founding Secretary General, Health Institutes of Türkiye (TÜSEB), İstanbul, Türkiye
- 2007 - 2024 Professor/ Yeditepe University, Faculty of Medicine, Head of Department of Physiology, Istanbul, Türkiye
- 2013 - 2024 Director of Graduate School of Health Sciences, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Türkiye
- 2013 - 2024 Vice Dean, Yeditepe University, Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Türkiye
- 2014 - 2025 President, Neuroscience Society of Türkiye (TÜBAS), Türkiye
- 2008 - 2018 Founding President, Turkish Neuroendocrinology Society (Istanbul, Türkiye)
- 2007 - 2024 Manager, Experimental Research Centre (YÜDETAM), Yeditepe University, Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Türkiye
Fields of Scholarship
- Neuropeptides
- Neurotransmitters
- Endocrine disruptors
- Neuroendocrine regulation of reproductive hormones
- Central regulation of energy homeostasis
Honours and Awards
- Personal Awards
- 2023 TÜBİTAK Best Scientific Publication Award, Ankara, Türkiye
- 2019-2022 Distinguished Scientist Award, Yeditepe University, İstanbul, Türkiye
- 2021 TUBİTAK-NATO Fellowship, State University of New York, Albany, New York, USA
- 2013 Personal TUBİTAK 2219 Sabbatical Award, King’s College London, Medical School, London, UK
- 2008 Best Scientific Publication Award in Neuroscience. Brain Research Society, Istanbul, Türkiye
- 1998 Promotion Award in Health Sciences, TİSAV, Elazığ, Türkiye
- 1993 - 1997 YÖK PhD Scholarship, University of Glasgow, UK
- 1991 June Valedictorian, Fırat University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Elazığ, Türkiye
- Major grant awards as a Principal Investigator
- 2022 - 2025 TUBITAK, Research Program no: 122S382
- 2020 - 2023 TUBITAK, Research Program no: 219S554
- 2018 - 2021 TUBITAK, Research Program no: 118S245
- 2015 - 2018 TUBITAK, Research Program no: 115S327
- 2013 - 2016 EU COST (Lead) Project # 113S155, COST CM1406
