Dr. Carlos Suárez-Quian, Anatomy Curriculum Advisor
Carlos A. Suárez-Quian, Ph.D. is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Harvard University and post-doctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Child Health.
In 1987, Dr. Suárez-Quian joined the Department of Cell Biology at Georgetown University Medical Center. He currently resides in the Department of Biochemistry as a full professor. Dr. Suárez-Quian has published over 50 peer-reviewed manuscripts and 10 chapters and received extensive funding from the NIH. He has spoken at numerous national and international meetings, and taught in the Frontiers of Reproduction Course at Woods Hole.
Dr. Suárez-Quian is director of medical gross anatomy and teaches medical and graduate students. He is the recipient of the Golden Apple, the Geza Illes, and the Kaiser-Permanente teaching awards. In May 2008, he was inducted into the MAGIS Society of Master Teachers, the highest award Georgetown bestows on its faculty. He was a founding member and co-directs the Georgetown Medical Center Mini Medical School Program, now in its 20th year. He is the author of the Online Guided Gross Anatomy Dissector, Sinauer Associates, Inc., and co-author of The Clinical Anatomy of the Cranial Nerves, 2015, by J.A. Vinlensky, W.M. Robertson and C.A. Suárez-Quian. More recently, he published the seven book series of All-in-One Anatomy Exam Review: Image-Based Questions and Answers in Apple iBooks with J.A. Vilensky. Dr. Suárez-Quian is one of 15 national judges for the annual Intel Science Competition.
Dr. Aykut Üren graduated from Hacettepe University School of Medicine in 1994.
He has done his postdoctoral training at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland in the United States. He joined the faculty at Georgetown University in Washington DC in 2002. Currently he is a tenured full-professor at Georgetown University. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers in cancer biology that received over 4500 citations and H-index of 33. He has 14 patents some of which were licensed to drug companies. His research program focuses on developing small molecules to target specific protein-protein interactions in pediatric sarcomas and prostate cancer. Dr. Üren teaches tumor biology to graduate students and gross anatomy to medical students. Detailed information about his research program and full list of his publications can be found in his lab webpage (www.uren-lab.org)
