2011
Marmara University Faculty of Medicine Department of
Rheumatology

1996
Istanbul University
Internal Medicine Department Specialization 

1990
Istanbul University
Medical Education

• Turkish Academy of Sciences Outstanding Young Scientist Award (GEBİP 2002)
  

• 1-Yavuz, S., Yavuz, AS., Kraemer, KH., Lipsky PE. (2002) The role of polymerase eta in somatic hypermutation determined by analysis of mutations in patients with xeroderma pigmentosum variant (XP-V). Journal of Immunology 169 (7): 3825-3830.
• 2-Yavuz, S., Grammer, AC., Yavuz, AS., Nanki, T., Lipsky, PE. (2001) Comparative characteristics of mu and alpha chain transcripts expressed by individual tonsil plasma cells. Molecular Immunology38 (1): 19-34.
• 3-Y avuz, AS., Lipsky, PE., Yavuz, S., Metcalfe, DD., Akin, C. (2002) Evidence for the involvement of a hemapoetic progenitor cell in systemic mastocytosis from single cell analysis of mutations in the c-kit gene. Blood100 (2): 661-665.
• 4-Yavuz, AS., Monson, NL., Yavuz, S., Grammer, AC., Longo, N., Girschick, HJ., Lipsky, PE. (2002) Different patterns of bcl-6 and p-53 gene mutations in tonsillar B cells indicate separate mutational mechanisms.Molecular Immunology39 (7-8): 485-493.
• 5-Bozkurt, N., Kazokoglu, H., Yavuz, S., Bavbek, T., Direskeneli, H. (2003) Elevated serum chemokine levels in Behcet’s disease with uveitis. Rheumatology International 23 (5): 268-269.
• 6-Toker, E., Yavuz, S., Direskeneli, H. (2004) Anti-Ro/SSA and anti-La/SSB autoantibodies in the tear fluid of patients with Sjogren's syndrome. British Journal of Ophthalmology88 (3): 384-387.
• 7-Direskeneli, H., Ekşioğlu-Demiralp, E., Yavuz, S., Ergun, T., Shinnick, T., Lehner, T., Akoglu, T. (2000) T cell responses to 60/65 kDa heat shock protein derived peptides in Turkish patients with Behcet’s disease.Journal of Rheumatology27 (3): 708-713.
• 8-Kurhan-Yavuz, S., Direskeneli, H., Bozkurt, N., Ozyazgan, Y., Bavbek, T., Kazokoglu, H., Eksioglu-Demiralp, E., Wildner, G., Diedrichs-Mohring, M., Akoglu, T. (2000) Anti-MHC autoimmunity in Behcet's disease: T cell responses to an HLA-B-derived peptide cross-reactive with retinal-S antigen in patients with uveitis. Clin. Exp. Immunol.120 (1): 162-166.
• 9-Nanki, T., Hayashida, K., El-Gabalawy, HS., Suson, S., Shi, K., Girschick, HJ., Yavuz, S., Lipsky, PE. (2000) Stromal cell-derived factor-1-CXC chemokine receptor 4 interactions play a central role in CD4+ T cell accumulation in rheumatoid arthritis synovium. Journal of Immunology165 (11): 6590-6598.
• 10-Hayashida, K., Nanki, T., Girschick, H., Yavuz, S., Ochi, T., Lipsky, PE. (2001) Synovial stromal cells from rheumatoid atrhritis patients attract monocytes by producing MCP-1 and IL-8. Arthritis Research3 (2): 118-126