Murat Gunel
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Biography
Dr. Murat Gunel, Professor of Neurosurgery, assumed the position of chief of Neurovascular Surgery Program in January of 2001. Dr. Gunel is a board certified neurosurgeon and is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He has special interest in treating brain aneurysms and vascular malformations with special emphasis on arterio-venous malformations and cavernous malformations. He also has expertise in occlusive vascular disorders such as carotid disease and gamma knife surgery (radiosurgery).
His laboratory interests parallel his expertise in clinical neurovascular surgery and focus on gene discovery in disorders of the nervous system and its vasculature. Dr. Gunel's lab completed the two largest genome wide association studies (GWAS) aimed at understanding common variants that underlie intracranial aneurysm genetic risk based on the analysis of over 20,000 subjects. In addition, he is interested in the identification of genes important in human brain development through the study of rare, consanguineous families with recessive forms of malformations of cortical development.
Education & Training
- Board CertificationAB of Neurological Surgery, Neurological Surgery (2002, recertified: 2013)
- Chief ResidentYale-New Haven Hospital (1998)
- ResidentYale-New Haven Hospital (1997)
- InternYale-New Haven Hospital (1992)
- MDIstanbul University (1991)
Activities
- Neurovascular SurgeryTurkey 2008Professor Gunel conducts collaborative work in Turkey on neurovascular surgery
- Molecular GeneticsTurkey 2007Collaboration on genetics of malformations of brain development
Honors & Recognition
Award | Awarding Organization | Date |
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Honorary Doctor of Philosophy Degree | Bahcesehir University, Turkey | 2010 |
Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award | Minister of Health, Turkey | 2010 |
Honorary Master of Arts Privatim Degree | Yale University | 2010 |
Nixdorff-German Professor | Yale University | 2009 |
Outstanding Poster Award in Basic Science | 5th Annual Meeting of the AANS/CNS Section of Cerebrovascular Surgery | 2002 |
Outstanding Poster Award in Basic Science | 4th Annual Meeting of the AANS/CNS Section of Cerebrovascular Surgery | 2001 |
Young Investigator Award | American Epilepsy Society | 1999 |
Departments & Organizations
- Brain Tumor Center
- Brain Tumor Research
- Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
- Dean's Workshops
- Gamma Knife Center
- Gamma Knife Radiosurgery
- Genomics, Genetics, and Epigenetics
- Gunel Lab
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program
- Molecular Cell Biology, Genetics and Development
- Neural Disorders
- Neuroscience
- Neurosurgery
- Neurovascular Surgery
- Office of Cooperative Research
- Stroke Center
- Vascular Biology and Therapeutics Program
- Yale Cancer Center
- Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS)
- Yale Medicine
- Yale University