TÜBA Member Prof. Dr. Gürsan’s Patent Has Been Certified
The patent application titled “A Method for Zearalenone Analysis Using a Sensor Based on Electrochemical Measurement Technique” by Prof. Dr. Kadriye Arzum Erdem Gürsan, a Full Member of TÜBA and a faculty member in the Department of Analytical Chemistry at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Ege University, has been granted by the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office.
Prof. Dr. K. Arzum Erdem Gürsan noted that, in addition to yield and quality losses in production caused by mycotoxins, the consumption of such products leads to the development of various diseases that threaten human health. She emphasized the need to monitor mycotoxins that pose a threat in agricultural and processed foods on a global scale, and stressed the necessity of methods for the rapid and reliable detection of toxins such as Zearalenon in a sensitive and selective manner. Prof. Gürsan, leader of the nanoBioSens lab research team, stated that the method they developed in collaboration with doctoral and master’s students in the multidisciplinary research group is designed for the rapid, selective, and sensitive analysis of Zearalenon (ZEN)—a plant-derived mycotoxin—in food analysis using a single-use electrochemical measurement technique-based sensor.
Who is Prof. Dr. K. Arzum Erdem Gürsan?
She graduated from the Faculty of Pharmacy at Ege University in 1993. She completed her master’s degree in 1996 and her Ph.D. in 2000 in the Department of Analytical Chemistry at the same faculty. She worked as an assistant professor from 2000 to 2003 and as an associate professor from 2003 to 2009 in the Department of Analytical Chemistry within the Department of Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Ege University.
In 2001, Prof. Gürsan was awarded the “TÜBA-Outstanding Young Scientist (GEBİP) Award” under the TÜBA program for outstanding young scientists. He was also awarded the TÜBİTAK Incentive Award in the field of Natural Sciences-Chemistry by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK) in 2006 and the TÜBİTAK Science Award in the field of Health Sciences in 2015. She was elected an Associate Member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA) in 2007 and a Full Member in 2016. In 2017, she received the title of Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), awarded to distinguished scientists who have made significant contributions in the field of chemistry.
In 2017, Prof. Gürsan was elected as a “Member” of the Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Committee of the Association of Academies and Societies of Sciences in Asia (AASSA) for the 2017–2019 term. She was re-elected as a “Member” for her fifth term and continues her activities on the committee.
Gürsan, who has been serving as a member of the Presidential Council on Science, Technology, and Innovation Policies since 2025, also serves as a member of the UNESCO-IBPS (International Basic Sciences Programme) and the ALLEA-EDI Working Group. She serves as an Associate Editor and has been serving as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the open-access journal “Biosensors and Bioelectronics: X,” which is affiliated with this journal, since 2021.
Prof. Dr. Gürsan, who was selected as one of the researchers supported in 2021 under the 2247-A National Leading Researchers Program administered by the Presidency of Scientific Researcher Support Programs at TÜBİTAK, has published over 230 , over 40 invited presentations at national and international meetings and conferences, 1 international and 1 national book he edited, 15 international book chapters, and 10 compilations, as well as 10 national patents registered between 2018 and 2026. According to current Web of Science (WoS) records, she has over 8,500 citations, and her h-index is 48.
Prof. Arzum Erdem Gürsan has conducted numerous national and international collaborative studies in the development and application of electrochemical biosensors based on drugs, enzymes, and nucleic acids. She conducts scientific research on "drug-DNA interactions, aptamer-protein interactions, sequence-selective nucleic acid hybridization based on genetic and infectious diseases, and the development and application of next-generation biosensor/ aptasensor technologies based on single and multi-measurement principles." Arzum Erdem Gürsan aims to develop electrochemical biosensors based on magnetic particles, carbon nanotubes, graphene and graphene-based nanomaterials, nanorods, nanowires, nanoparticles, dendrimers, conductive polymers, and biopolymers. She is also working on the development of analytical systems integrated with electrochemical sensors for the detection of various analytes in the fields of environment, food, and health. She continues her research at the Department of Analytical Chemistry, Division of Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ege University.
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