Biography:
Dr. Mehmet Ay graduated as BSc&MSc in Chemical Engineering in 1980 and PhD in 1989 at Science Faculty, Ankara University under Supervision of Dr. Ender Erdik. Experienced 6 months Lab. training at Würzburg University in AKS. Hünig, 1980-1981,Germany; 16 months Post Doctoral Research Assoc. at Purdue University in Dr. E. NEGISHI’s lab, W. Lafayette, 1991-1993, USA. Since 1999 as a Faculty at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Department of Chemistry is going on teaching and research activities in his Natural Products and Drug Research Lab., focusing on developing new prodrug and drug molecules for Cancer Therapy
Title : Development of nitroreductase/prodrug system for cancer therapy