İsmail Tayfun Uzbay (born September 1959) is a Turkish neuropsychopharmacologist.

Life

Uzbay graduated from Ünye High School and received his bachelor's degree in the Faculty of

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from Istanbul University in 1982. He completed his doctorate in 1992 at Gülhane Military Medical Academy (GATA) in the field of Medical Pharmacology. He received the title of Associate Professorship in 1995. He worked in the field of Pharmacology in the Institute of Medical Sciences in North Texas University with scholarships from both

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and

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. In 1999, he won a scholarship and worked as a research assistant in the department of Toxicology in the Faculty of Pharmaceutics in Cagliari University in

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. He received the title of Professorship in 2003. Between the years 2003 and 2011, he worked as the Head of the Department of Medical Pharmacology in GATA. From 2011 until 2013, he worked as a member of High Science Council in GATA. He retired from the

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in 2013. Today he is still working as the Head of the Departments of Molecular Biology and Genetics and

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, as well as the director of Neuropsychopharmacology Research and Application Center. Prof. Dr. Uzbay, who resumes his studies in the field of

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, has seven books in Turkish and one book in English. He has received the Roche Medical Research Prize (1994), Pharmacy Academy Science Prize (2005), Prof. Dr. Rasim Adasal Science Prize (2005), Popular Science Prize (2007), Brain Research Foundation Publication Promotion Prize (2008). Uzbay patented three molecules which are candidate drugs to the generation of schizophrenia disorder, its diagnosis and treatment. His work in this field have been honoured by the Turkish Armed Forces by the New Inventions Strip Badge and the Headquarters Outstanding Service Award. Prof. Dr. Uzbay has worked on the subject of Alcohol and Substance Dependence and has significant publications in this field as well. Prof. Dr. Tayfun Uzbay is married and the father of one child.

Awards

Uzbay has received the following awards: *(1994)

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Psychiatry Science Award *(2005) Academy of Pharmacy (Turkish Pharmacist Association) Science Award *(2005) Turkish Social Psychiatry Association, Professor Rasim Adasal Science Award *(2008) Popular Science Award, Health Science *(2008) Brain Research Society Publication Award *(2009) Specific solutions: Project Marketing and Awards (Ege Üniversity, EBİLTEM, TÜBİTAK and ELGİNKAN Foundation), First Degree *(2015) The Best Scientists Award of Turkey (TAF NETWORK, Turkish Academic Fellowship) *(2016) Friend of Schizophrenics award (Mental Health and Treatment Foundation of Turkey) *(2016) Incentive and Honor Award (BAYEV)

Publications

Uzbay has written the following book in English: *Uzbay, I.T. (ed.), ''A New Approach to Etiopathogenezis of Depression: Neuroplasticity''.

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, New York City, 2011 ().

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