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Dr Tansel Baran Yasar

- ZNZ PhD award for Dr. Tansel Baran Yasar
Dr. Tansel Baran Yasar received the ZNZ (Zurich Neuroscience Center) Best PhD Thesis Award in 2024 during the Annual Symposium of ZNZ. The award is presented by the ZNZ Steering Committee to the best PhD thesis defended in the period 1 August 2023 – 31 July 2024 among PhD graduates from about 150 member research groups of ZNZ. Dr. Yasar's thesis, titled "High-Density Ultraflexible Electrode Technologies for Months-Long Stable Neuronal Recordings from Multiple Brain Areas" and supervised by Prof. Dr. Mehmet Fatih Yanik, presented work on the development of various types of novel ultra-flexible electrode arrays for interfacing with the brain at a network level with months-long stability. Parts of the thesis were recently published as an article in Nature Communications, where Dr. Yasar and Dr. Peter Gombkoto were the co-first authors. Dr. Yasar will soon start the ETH Pioneer Fellowship program to pursue an entrepreneurial path to take the ultra-flexible electrodes to market and adapt these electrodes for clinical trials.
 

  • Gizem Aydemir receives Best Poster Award at the external page ZNZ Symposium 2023     Gizem Aydemir was awarded with the Stewart Berry Memorial Poster Award for her contribution "Dynamics of focally hyperconcentrated drug release".
  • Prof. Yanik receives SNSF Bridge Discovery grant for translation of our non-invasive focal brain drug delivery technology (which was funded initially by ERC consolidator) to clinic with the teams of neurosurgeon Dr. Med. Michael Hugelshofer of UZH and veterinarian head Dr. Med. Henning Richter of Tierspital.
Nature Machine Intelligence April 2022 Cover
  • Our paper "Deep-learning-based identification, tracking, pose estimation and behaviour classification of interacting primates and mice in complex environments" is published in external page Nature Machine Intelligence and the cover of April 2022 issue! 
  • An international and multi-disciplinary team of researchers, clinicians, and data scientists, led by Dr. Nazarian, aims to improve treatment for children with aggressive brain tumors has been awarded a Sinergia grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). The new Sinergia consortium incorporates the ETH Neurotechnology Group, Children's Hospital in Zurich and a group in Norway, and has received CHF 3.1 million for their interdisciplinary and collaborative research project on harnessing novel technologies for precision medicine in pediatric diffuse midline glioma. external page https://www.med.uio.no/ncmm/english/news-and-events/news/2020/international-consortium-receives-funding-from-the.html, December 2020.
Enlarged view: Editors’ Highlight: From Brain to Behaviour
  • We congratulate Dr. Mehmet Özdaş for receiving ETH Medal for his PhD thesis "Millimeter Precision Non-invasive Targeted Drug Delivery to Brain" . 

Our paper "Non-invasive molecularly-specific millimeter-resolution manipulation of brain circuits by ultrasound-mediated aggregation and uncaging of drug carriers" is published in external page Nature Communications.  See also related news in the external page Science Magazine and external page Nature Communications Highlights, October 2020.

 

Enlarged view: Editors’ Highlight: From Brain to Behaviour

Our paper "Engineering brain activity patterns by neuromodulator polytherapy for treatment of disorders" is published in external page Nature Communications.  See "Nature Editors’ Highlight: external page From Brain to Behaviour", 2019

 

 

 

 

 

 

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