Dr. Deniz N. Çağdaş Ayvaz
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Dr Ayvaz graduated from Hacettepe University Medical School in 1998. Deniz Cagdas started residency for about a year in Internal Medicine, and completed her residency in Pediatrics at the Hacettepe University Children’s Hospital. She has worked in Pediatric Cardiology for four years, completed Pediatric Immunology and Allergy subspecialty in 2014, and did her PhD in Immunology. She studied short-term as a visiting scientist at Rockefeller University, Harvard University, and the National Institutes of Health/ National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH-NIAID). The Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board and The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State awarded a certificate to her in recognition of the successful completion of the Fulbright Scholarship Program at the NIH-NIAID. She is interested in diseases associated with autoimmunity, immune dysregulation, lymphoproliferation, cancer pathogenesis, transplantation immunology, and aging immunity. She participated in national and international studies and contributed to defining new primary immunodeficiency genes (RASGRP1, IL6ST, and GIMAP6). Over 500 publications, including over 160 articles in Pubmed, specialty, master and doctoral theses, >3000 citations, h index 26). She has worked as a professor since 2018 and has been working as the head of the Immunology Department at Hacettepe University Medical School since 2022. She has been working as the head of the Immunology Department at Hacettepe University Medical School since 2022. She is interested in diseases associated with autoimmunity, immune dysregulation, lymphoproliferation, cancer pathogenesis, transplantation immunology, and aging immunity and participated in national/international studies and contributed to defining new primary immunodeficiency genes (RASGRP1, IL6ST, and GIMAP6).