Prof. Dr. Serdar Ceylaner
Prof. Dr. Serdar Ceylaner is a medical doctor- a medical geneticist who focuses on rare and undiagnosed diseases for both diagnostic and scientific studies. He is the director, partner, and founder of Intergen Genetics and Rare Diseases Diagnosis and Research Center. Serdar Ceylaner is the Vice Chairman of the Rare and Undiagnosed Diseases Committee of the European Association of Medical Specialists (UEMS). He is a member of several other UEMS committees (Department of Medical Genetics, Medical Genetics Board Examination Committee, Multidisciplinary Adolescent Health Joint Committee).
He is the former president of the Medical Genetics Association of Turkey and a member of the board of directors between 2009 and 2017. Between 1997 and 2017, he was the founder of the Department of Genetics at Zekai Tahir Burak Women's Health and Training Hospital. He has focused on genetics and rare diseases and has studied in this field for 27 years. He established a center for diagnosis, research, and educational work in this field. Undiagnosed diseases, medical complications, and intensive care unit patients are his main research areas in recent years.
For nearly 30 years, I have been conducting studies in the fields of rare and undiagnosed diseases, genetic diseases, patient examination, genetic tests, genetic counseling, scientific research, R&D, education, and scientific policy. For 23 years, together with my wife Gülay Ceylaner, and the strong team of Intergen, under the logic of a scientific Institute, we have been performing studies that have affected the whole world.
It is our greatest happiness to be a part of a team with more than 500,000 patient experiences, identification of many new diseases, development of new materials and scientific methods, and experiences of more than a hundred projects and more than 350 scientific publications. Contributing to many international organizations such as the European Union of Medical Specialists-UEMS, the World Health Organization, and the International Organization for Undiagnosed Diseases-UDNI is one of our main aims. We have built our whole life in this direction and we are doing our best to pave the way for those who want to work in this field.
Assoc. Dr. Gülay Ceylaner
Assoc. Dr. Gülay Ceylaner is a medical doctor - a medical geneticist who focuses on rare and undiagnosed diseases for both diagnostic and scientific studies. She is the director, partner, and founder of the Intergen Genetics and Rare Diseases Diagnosis and Research Center. One of the world's largest genetic testing panels kit was designed, almost entirely of which were designed by the center; It was established with the goal of a "HUMAN" oriented center that includes "patient-client" and "own staff". She was the founder of Zekai Tahir Burak Women's Health and Training Hospital Genetics Department between 1997-2007.
In 2017, she established the Intergen R&D Center and this center was among the top 500 institutions that made the most R&D investments in Turkey in 3 years. She founded the Rare Disease Volunteers Association in 2020 and she is its president. He produced many scientific works, organized congresses, meetings, and courses, and made many scientific speeches. While graduating in 1993, she got married to Dr. Serdar Ceylaner, a medical geneticist like herself, and has 2 children. She and her husband, Serdar Ceylaner, took the first steps on this long road by making their first research on genetics while sitting in the lecture halls with excited eyes in the 1st year of medical school.
The journey that started by researching the "genetic basis of tongue rolling feature" has now gone to illuminating new gene-disease relationships and touching the lives of more than 500 thousand patients. For 27 years, she has focused on scientific and social studies on genetics, rare and undiagnosed diseases, treatment complications, intensive care patients, personal medicine, and cancer. In this field, she continues to work on awareness studies, diagnosis, research and education studies, diagnosis, and treatments, together with the Rare Disease Volunteers Association, of which she is the chairman.
Memberships to Scientific Organizations:
- Medical Genetics Association
- Rare Disease Volunteers Association-President
Dr. Hasan Baş
Dr. Hasan Baş is a medical geneticist who works on rare diseases for both diagnostic and scientific studies. He is the director of clinical genetics department of Intergen Genetics and Rare Diseases Diagnosis and Research Center. After graduating from Hacettepe University, Faculty of Medicine in 2015, he started his specialization training in Medical Genetics Department of Eskisehir Osmangazi University and successfuly completed it in 2020. He also achieved European Certificate in Medical Genetics and Genomics (ECMGG) within the same year. He was choosen for UNESCO supported training course in curation of human gene/disease databases organized by LOVD, and he has been volunteerly working as gene-disease validity curator in the “kidney cystic and ciliopathy disorders working group” of Clingen. He has focused on genetic background of human disorders and has studied in this field for nearly a decade. Clinical management of rare disorders, variant effect prediction, and gene-disease assertions are his main interests in recent years.