Orkid Coskuner-Weber
Turkısh-German University, Turkey
Biography
Orkid Coskuner-Weber is an expert in Alzheimer´s and Parkinson´s disease mechanism studies and monoclonal antibody design. She recived her Ph.D. degree from the Universitaet zu Koeln in Germany. She was a postdoc at Johns Hopkins and Stanford Universities. She was an assistant professor at George Mason University and at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She recently took a position in Istanbul for opening the Alzheimer´s and Parkinson´s disease research center. She has been associated with the National Institute of Standards and Technology since 2005. She develops and uses quantum chemical, statistical mechanical, bioinformatics, artificial intelligence and experimental tools in her research activities.
Abstract
Abstract : Mitochondrial dysfunction, oxidative stress and genetic factors in Alzheimer´s disease