Scientists Who Glorify the Name of Our Country with Their Contributions to Medical Science

The research and book titled “100 Turks Leading Medical Science” prepared by Turkishtime brought together our physicians whose research, discoveries, and treatment methods have had a repercussion in the world. Some of the successful Turkish physicians who do research abroad in the world's leading scientific institutions such as Harvard, Yale, John Hopkins University, and the University of Chicago and in the most successful institutions of our country in this field:

Aziz Sancar, Gökhan Hotamışlıgil, Serdar Bulun, Fatih M. Uçkun, Şükrü H. Emre, M. Gazi Yaşargil, Biykem Bozkurt, Serap Aksoy, Emrah Düzel, Özlem Türeci, Bülent C. Urman, Serhat Ünal, Lale Tokgözoğlu, Selim Mehmet Acarsoy, Ayşe Ayhan, Seza Özen

Prof. Dr. M. Gazi Yaşargil, who discovered the usability of microsurgery in the field of neurosurgery, found new methods for the treatment of epilepsy and brain tumors. Yaşargil, who made particularly important developments in the field of neurosurgery and put the microscope into use in brain surgeries, went down in the history of medicine as the name that developed the first intervention technique against an aneurysm. 

Yaşargil, who received his medical education at Friedrich Schiller University in Germany, in addition to his routine neurosurgery studies at the University of Zürich Neurosurgery Clinic, performed cerebral angiography in the first 12 years (1953-1965) and surgeries for the treatment of Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders with stereotactic technique between the years 1957-1965.
In Zürich, he used the high-frequency coagulation technique for the first time with the help of

Neurophysiologist Prof. Oscar Wyss, and this technique was adopted globally.
Microsurgery laboratories were established in Oxford-England, Little Rock-USA, and Beijing-China under the name of Professor Yaşargil.

The annual Yaşargil conferences were initiated by the Zürich Swiss Medical Faculty in November 2014, honoring his studies and contributions at the University of Zürich.
Prof. Dr. M. Gazi Yaşargil continues his studies at Yeditepe University.