Two Awards in Korea for Neurobiology Research

We received two separate International Fellowship grants from TÜBİTAK, the national scientific council of Türkiye, during the KSBNS Annual Meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea in 2024. These awards are highly competitive and recognize researchers who bring impactful scientific findings to the global community.

The work focused on the regulatory architecture of glutamate transporters. We presented research on truncated isoforms, showing how these shorter protein variants act as intrinsic inhibitors by disrupting the assembly of functional transporters in the brain. This research establishes a new structural model for how the nervous system manages neurotransmitter signaling.