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Nazmi Özer

Biography

I was born at Hisar Köyü of Mut in Mersin at the 15th of August, 1945. After primary school at Hisar Köyü, I was admitted to Middle School of Silifke high school and I graduated from Silifke high school in 1963. After taken Middle East University entrance examination I was accepted to the Department of Chemistry in Arts and Sciences Faculty. I attended one year to English Preparotory School. In 1969 I graduated from the University as Chemist. Then, I was accepted to the MSc program in Molecular Biology and I got my MSc degree from Modern Biology Program in the Department of Chemistry, in September, 1971. My thesis title was “Identification of a leucine transport system in Jerusalem Artichoke tuber slices”. Then, I took the assistantship entrance examination in the Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine of Hacettepe University and I was accepted as research assistant and as PhD student. I got my PhD in September, 1974. The title of my PhD thesis was “The purification and kinetic properties of cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase from bovine cerebral cortex”. I become associate professor in 1979 and professor in 1988. I got my medical specialist diplome in 1982 with the thesis on the “The level of creatine phosphokinase isozymes in the serum of patients with acute myocardial infarctus”.

Research Interest

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology