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Çağhan Kızıl (born October 14, 1981) is a Turkish/German neuroscientist and geneticist, and Associate Professor of Neurological Sciences at the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

His research culminates interdisciplinary approaches harboring genetics, neuroscience, cell biology, neuroimmunology, biotechnology and drug development. His team focuses on learning from Zebrafish how to enable the adult brain to better cope with neurodegenerative diseases and regenerate. By generating the first adult zebrafish brain Alzheimer's model, and single cell sequencing-based investigation of the stem cell plasticity in this model, he aims to understand the molecular programs for zebrafish brain to induce regenerative neural stem cell plasticity and to investigate the functions of human genes related to Alzheimer's disease in zebrafish brain. He develops tools for comparative studies in mammalian brains such as 3D human brain models as novel in vitro platforms for drug development.

Previously, he was leading Helmholtz research group in German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases within Helmholtz Association. He established his lab after receiving Helmholtz Young investigator award in 2013. In 2014, he became Docent (Associate Professor) by Council of Higher Education (Turkey). In 2019, he became a tenured group leader in DZNE Dresden within the Helmholtz Association. He was the founder CEO of the first spin-off company of German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Neuron-D GmbH that specializes on 3D high-throughput drug screening platform for neurological diseases.

References

1. "Announcement for Visiting Position and Award", LinkedIn, April 23, 2021
2. "Department of Neurology Faculty Profile", Columbia University, November 23, 2022
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6. Cosacak, M. I. (2019). "Single-Cell Transcriptomics Analyses of Neural Stem Cell Heterogeneity and Contextual Plasticity in a Zebrafish Brain Model of Amyloid Toxicity". Cell Reports. 27 (4): 1307–1318. doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2019.03.090. PMID 31018142.
7. Bhattarai, P. (2020). "Neuron-glia interaction through Serotonin-BDNF-NGFR axis enables regenerative neurogenesis in Alzheimer's model of adult zebrafish brain". PLOS Biology. 18 (1): e3000585. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3000585. PMC 6964913. PMID 31905199.
8. "Missing Link Between Alzheimer's and Vascular Disease Found?", Columbia University Irving Medical Center Newsroom, May 24, 2022
9. "Alzheimer's in mini format", DZNE Press release, April 22, 2019
10. Papadimitriou, C. (2018). "3D Culture Method for Alzheimer's Disease Modeling Reveals Interleukin-4 Rescues Aβ42-Induced Loss of Human Neural Stem Cell Plasticity". Developmental Cell. 46 (1): 85–101. doi:10.1016/j.devcel.2018.06.005. PMID 29974866.
11. "Çağhan Kızıl's website - DZNE", DZNE, April 22, 2019
12. "Kizil Lab's website – Kizil Lab", Kizil Lab, April 22, 2019
13. "1.7 million Euros for young Dresden based researcher", DZNE Press release, April 22, 2019
14. "New Helmholtz young investigators", Helmholtz Association, April 22, 2019
15. "Zebra Balığı Alzheimer'dan Çıkış Yolumuz mu? | Çağhan KIZIL | TEDxAnkara", TEDx Ankara, February 20, 2019
16. "DZNE's First Spin-off “Neuron–D” Uses Innovative Technology for Drug Testing", DZNE Press release, March 18, 2021
17. "NEURON-D by DZNE, Video", DZNE introduction video, March 18, 2021

External links

• Çağhan Kızıl publications indexed by Google Scholar

• 1981 births
• Living people
• People from Zonguldak
• Turkish neuroscientists
• German neuroscientists
• German geneticists
• University of Göttingen alumni
• University of Tübingen alumni
• Middle East Technical University alumni
• Turkish emigrants to Germany
• Columbia Medical School faculty
• Columbia University faculty