Master Class: Prof. Dr. Moshe Arditi – Introduction to Immunology – Immunology 101 – in Current World Issues

Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 20-23 Ekim 2023 tarihleri arasında Prof. Dr. Moshe Arditi (Director, Infectious and Immunologic Diseases Research Center-IIDRC; Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, UCLA School of Medicine; Kadir Has Üstün Başarı Ödülü, 2022) ile yoğun programlı bir MasterClass dersi hazırladı.

Prof. Dr. Moshe Arditi tarafından verilecek dersler: 1. Introduction to the Immune System 2. Innate Immune System 3. Adaptive Immune System, Th1 Immunity and Inflammation

Master Class will be held face-to-face between 10:00-16:00 for 4 days on October 20-23.

University students, faculty members, employees from different sectors and high school students who have achieved Outstanding Success in KHAS High School Summer and Winter Schools can apply for the training.

Lessons are in English and Turkish! The fee for the training with limited quota is 4000 TL.

Successful and Outstanding Successful participants will be given Certificates of Achievement and Outstanding Achievement, signed in Turkish and English by Prof. Dr. Moshe Arditi, M.D., our Rector Prof. Dr. Sondan Durukanoğlu Feyiz and Prof. Dr. Nihat Berker.

For detailed information: https://acik-ders.khas.edu.tr/dersler/master-class

To apply: https://acik-ders.khas.edu.tr/basvuru/master-class

Friday, October 20, 2023

10:30-12:00 Prof. Dr. Moshe Arditi / Introduction to the Immune System

13:00-14:30 Prof. Dr. Demet Akten / Investigation of Species-Specific Allosteric Binding Sites in Glycolytic Enzymes and Their Use in Drug Development Studies Against Diseases Caused by Bacteria or Parasites

14:30-16:00 Dr. Mustafa Çetin / Combination of Immunology, Pharmacology and Synthetic Organic Chemistry in the Treatment of Brain Metastatic Breast Cancer

Saturday, October 21, 2023

10:00-11:30 Prof. Dr. Moshe Arditi / Innate Immune System

11:30-13:00 Prof. Dr. Kemal Yelekçi / Basic Sciences and mRNA Vaccine – 2023 Nobel Prize

14:00-16:00 Res. Asst. Emel Kökrek / Application

Sunday, October 22, 2023

10:00-11:30 Prof. Dr. Moshe Arditi / Adaptive Immune System, Th1 Immunity and Inflammation

11:30-13:00 Dr. Lecturer Ebru Bilget Güven / Immunotherapy in Hepatocellular Carcinoma

14:00-16:00 Res. Asst. Emel Kökrek / Application

Monday, October 23, 2023

10:00-… Prof. Dr. Moshe Arditi / One-on-One Meetings

Prof. Dr. Moshe Arditi was born in Istanbul in 1956. He received his primary and secondary education in Istanbul, graduated from Saint Joseph French High School in 1975, Cerrahpaşa Medical School in 1981, and worked as a researcher at Yale University Medical School Hospital in the United States between 1981-83. He participated in the first research studies on the effects of surfactant treatment on the lungs of premature babies at Yale University. He then specialized in Pediatrics at the University of Chicago (1983-86). After completing his subspecialty in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Northwestern University between 1986-1991, he worked as an Assistant Professor (1991-94) and Associate Professor (1994-1998) at the Children’s Hospital of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles (USC-CHLA).

In 1998, he moved to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Cedars-Sinai Hospital (CSMC) as a Professor (2002) and Head of the Department of Pediatric Infection. Since 2011, he has been the Head of the Department of Pediatric Diseases Research at UCLA-CSMC and the founding Director of the Infectious and Immunologic Diseases Research Center. He currently continues to serve as the Head of the Department and the Head of the Research Center. In 2014, he was elected as a member of the Association of American Physicians (AAP), founded by William Osler, and in 2019, he received the “Pioneer of Medicine” award at Cedars-Sinai Hospital. In 2021, he was elected as a member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences. In 2022, he was awarded the Kadir Has Outstanding Achievement Award in the field of “Infectious Diseases and Immunology”.

His research interests include infection and the immune system, innate and adaptive immunity, pathogen and host interactions, especially the effects on cardiovascular diseases, Kawasaki Disease and the COVID-19 virus. All of his research and important discoveries on these topics have been supported by the American National Institute of Health (NIH) for the last 25 years. He has contributed to the sciences of infection, biology and immunology with 177 articles published in top-tier academic biology and medical journals and nearly 22 thousand citations.