Prof. Gulberk Ucar
Hacettepe University, Turkiye
Prof. Dr. GULBERK UCAR
She graduated from Hornell Senior High School (USA) in 1975, and from the Faculty of Pharmacy, Hacettepe University (HU) in 1979. Between 1981 and 1991, she worked as a research assistant at Hacettepe University, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Biochemistry. She received her master's and doctoral degrees from Hacettepe University Institute of Health Sciences Medical Biochemistry Program in 1983 and 1991. She received the title of assistant professor in 1992, associate professor in 1996, and professor in 2005 in the Biochemistry Department of the Faculty of Pharmacy, Hacettepe University. She served as the Head of the same Department between 2005-2020 and simultaneously as the Head of the Department of Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences between 2017-2020.
She conducted her scientific research in L’Istitut Pasteur, Paris (France), La Faculté de Médecine de Strasbourg (France), Karolinska Instutet (İsveç), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain), Max-Planc Institut für Biochemie, München (Germany), and The Morsani College of Medicine, USF, Tempa (USA). She held many scientific and administrative positions such as executive memberhip/chairmanship/presidency/ coordinatorship in the Executive committees and Institutions of Hacettepe University as well as in several national and international scientific associations and committees. She served as editor/co-editor or executive member in Advisory/Editorial Boards of many national or international scientific publications. She is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy, Hacettepe University, and the President of “The society of Researchers in Pharmacy and Medicine, ILARUD. She has 8 national and 2 international awards, She has over 200 national/international scientific publications with a high rate of citations; over 250 national/international oral/poster presentations, and also several national/ international scientific projects. Her h index is 35. She speaks English, French, and German. She is married and has one child.
