İ. Tayfun UZBAY, Ph.D

Ismail Tayfun Uzbay is professor of Medical Pharmacology. He graduated from Faculty of Pharmacy at Istanbul University in 1982. He took Ph.D. degree at Gulhane Military Medical Academy (GATA), Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Pharmacology in 1992. He worked at the same department as a research assistant professor and associate professor between 1992 and 2002. In 1997, he founded Psychopharmacology Research Unit in GATA research center and became the chairman of this unit. In 2003, he became professor. Between 2003 and 2011, he was the director of Department of Medical Pharmacology at GATA. From 1997 to 1998, he worked in University of North Texas in USA as a visiting scientist for one year.  In 1999, he also worked as a visiting scientist in University of Cagliari, Department of Toxicology in Italy. Now he is working at Üsküdar University in Istanbul. He is head of the Departments of Molecular Biology and Genetics and director of the Neuropsychopharmacology Application and Research Center (NPARC) at Üsküdar University. He is the chair of Pharmacy Academy of Turkish Pharmacists’ Association from 2016.

He has been worked on neurobiological basement of the CNS disorders and behavioral neurocience. He founded first Psychopharmacology Research Unit in GATA in Turkey. He also founded first Neuropsychopharmacology Application and Research Center in Turkey at Üsküdar University. Recently, Prof. Uzbay's research studies have been focused on neurobiological basement of some important CNS disorders such as substance abuse, dependence and schizophrenia. He proved that polyamine pathway and agmatine are very important targets for development of new drugs in treatment of schizophrenia. Thus, he holds a patent on this issue.  

Professor Uzbay published more than 100 international articles listed in Science Citation Index (SCI) and SCI-expanded. He also published a book involved in Neuroplasticity in English language. In addition to his international scientific activities, he published 53 articles, 8 books and 25 book chapters in Turkish language. He served as a reviewer for more than 150 articles in 50 different qualified international journals listed in SCI.  He has over 2000 citations. His H factor is 22 in Web of Science and 24 in Scopus.