Prof. Dr. Ayşe Altıntaş became a neurology specialist (Ege University) in 1992, “associate professor” in 1997, and “professor” in 2003 (Istanbul University, Cerrahpaşa Medical Faculty). Between 1991-1992, she studied neuroimmunology under the mentor of Prof. Moses Rodriguez at the Mayo Clinic and worked on the experimental model of Multiple Sclerosis (MS). With this work, she was awarded the Eczacıbaşı Medical Incentive Award. In 2001, he worked with Prof. Dr. C. Lucchinetti and Prof. B. Weinshenker on the neuroimmunopathological mechanisms, radiological correlations and demyelination / remyelination mechanisms of MS at Mayo Clinic.
Between 2005 and 2018, she worked as a “lecturer” in “neuroscience” and “immunology” master and doctorate programs at Aziz Sancar Experimental Medicine and Research Institute.
She has been a Board member of the European Neuroimmunology School for many years, a member of the BioMS-EU working group and the former coordinator of the Turkish Neurological Association’s Neuroimmunology working group. Her current Works are focused on inflammatory demyelinating diseases of the central nervous system (multiple sclerosis & neuromyelitis optica), and primarily aimed to clarify possible disease biomarkers and mechanisms at the immunopathological level by clinical and laboratory studies.
Prof. Dr. Ayşe Altıntaş has been working at Koç University Hospital Neurology Department since June 2018.