Nejat Duzgunes
Dr. D眉zg眉ne艧 joined the dental school in 1990 as associate professor and chairperson of the Department of Microbiology, and was promoted to professor in 1995. He was chair of this department until 2010, when the department was merged into the Department of Biomedical Sciences.
Dr. D眉zg眉ne艧 received his B.S. degree in physics in 1972 from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, and his PhD in biophysical sciences, in 1978, from the State University of New York at Buffalo (with the late Prof. Shinpei Ohki).
He was a National Cancer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cancer Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco (1978鈥�1981) in the laboratory of the late Prof. Demetrios Papahadjopoulos. Subsequently, he was assistant research biochemist at Children's Hospital Medical Center, Oakland, and at UCSF. He was appointed associate research biochemist at the Cancer Research Institute, UCSF, and associate adjunct professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences, UCSF.
He was a visiting professor at the CNR Institute of Cybernetics and Biophysics, Genova, Italy in 1986, and in the Department of Biophysics, Kyoto University, Japan, as a Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science in 1988.
- Diploma, 1968, Noble and Greenough School, Dedham, Mass.
- B.S., Physics, 1972, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
- Ph.D., Biophysical Sciences, 1978, State University of New York at Buffalo
- Postdoctoral, Membrane Biophysics, 1981, University of California, San Francisco (National Cancer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow; National Research Service Award; CA-06190)
- Medical Microbiology and Immunology
- HIV Biology
- Potential Approaches to an HIV Cure
- Gene Therapy and Photodynamic Therapy of Oral Cancer
- A New Approach to Funding Biomedical Research
- Photodynamic Therapy of Oral Cancer
- Liposome Targeting to Oral Cancer Cells
- Use of Oral Cancer Tumor Spheroids for Cancer Therapy
- Bacteriophage Therapy of Mycobacterial Infections
