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2 HEALTH AND LABORATORY MAGAZINE

NEW BIONICS CENTER

No: 05 November 2021 ESTABLISHED AT MIT WITH $24
ISSN: 2148-953X
MILLION GIFT
CHAIRMAN
Süleyman GÜLER
EDITOR
Berat DURMAZ

ART DIRECTOR A deepening To develop prosthetic countless lives, here in the
Fatih ÇETİN understanding of the limbs that move as the U.S. and abroad.”
brain has created Interdisciplinary brain commands or optical
ADVISORY BOARD The center will be led by
Professor Dr. Kadir HALKMAN unprecedented research center devices that bypass
Professor Dr. Aziz EKŞİ opportunities to alleviate an injured spinal cord Hugh Herr, a professor of
Melek MALKOÇ the challenges posed by funded by to stimulate muscles, media arts and sciences
Exp. Yelda ZENCİR disability. Scientists and bionic developers must at MIT’s Media Lab,
Özlem Etiz SAĞDAŞ philanthropist and Ed Boyden, the Y.
Nevin KOÇAKER engineers are taking design integrate knowledge
cues from biology itself Lisa Yang aims from a diverse array of Eva Tan Professor of
LEGAL ADVISORS to create revolutionary fields — from robotics and Neurotechnology at MIT,
Hunting. Ersan BARKIN technologies that restore to mitigate artificial intelligence to a professor of biological
Hunting. Murat TEZCAN
the function of bodies disability through surgery, biomechanics, and engineering, brain and
FINANCIAL CONSULTANT affected by injury, aging, or technologies that design. The K. Lisa Yang cognitive sciences, and
İrfan BOZYİĞİT disease — from prosthetic Center for Bionics will be media arts and sciences,
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limbs that effortlessly marry human deeply interdisciplinary, and an investigator at
HEAD OFFICE navigate tricky terrain to physiology with uniting experts from MIT’s McGovern Institute
Oğuzlar Mah. 1374 Sok. No:2/4 digital nervous systems three MIT schools: and the Howard Hughes
Balgat - Ankara TURKEY that move the body after a electromechanics. Science, Engineering, and Medical Institute.
Tel: +90 312 342 22 45 spinal cord injury. Architecture and Planning.
Fax: +90312 342 22 46
bilgi@labmedya.com With clinical and surgical A double amputee
With the establishment collaborators at Harvard himself, Herr is a pioneer
of the new K. Lisa Yang in Neuroscience, Hock Medical School, the center in the development of
Center for Bionics, E. Tan and K. Lisa Yang will ensure that research bionic limbs to improve
www.prosigma.net MIT is pushing forward Center for Center for advances are tested mobility for those with
info@prosigma.net the development and Autism Research, Y. Eva rapidly and reach people physical disabilities.“The
deployment of enabling Tan Professorship in in need, including those in world profoundly needs
PUBLICATION PLACE technologies that Neurotechnology, and traditionally underserved relief from the disabilities
İşkur Matbaacılık
Kağ. San. ve Tic. Ltd. Şti. communicate directly with the endowed K. Lisa Yang communities. imposed by today’s
the nervous system to Post-Baccalaureate nonexistent or broken
Ağaç işleri Sanayi
İvedik OSB ANKARA mitigate a broad range of Program. To support ongoing efforts technologies. We must
Phone +90312 394 6230 disabilities. The center’s to move toward a future continually strive towards
scientists, clinicians, “The K. Lisa Yang Center without disability, the a technological future in
DATE OF ISSUE and engineers will work for Bionics will provide a center will also provide which disability is no longer
November 2021 - Ankara together to create, test, dynamic hub for scientists, four endowed fellowships a common life experience,”
NOTE TO THE READER and disseminate bionic engineers, and designers for MIT graduate students says Herr. “I am thrilled that
Published in the Labmedya technologies that integrate across MIT to work working in bionics or other the Yang Center for Bionics
Newspaper featured with both the body and together on revolutionary research areas focused will help to measurably
in articles and articles mind. answers to the challenges on improving the lives of improve the human
Responsibility of opinions
Broadcast LabMedya not to of disability,” says MIT individuals who experience experience for so many.”
its body and / or Prosigma The center is funded by President L. Rafael Reif. disability.
Company, belongs to the a $24 million gift to MIT’s “With this visionary gift, Boyden, who is a renowned
authors. Authors may have McGovern Institute for Lisa Yang is unleashing “I am thrilled to support creator of tools to analyze
consultancy or other business MIT on this major research and control the brain, will
relationships with companies Brain Research from a powerful collaborative
involved in their work. Ads philanthropist Lisa Yang, strategy that will have effort to enable powerful play a key role in merging
also; is the responsibility of a former investment broad impact across a new solutions that improve bionics technologies with
advertisers. The product banker committed to large spectrum of human the quality of life for the nervous system. “The
information published on the
product introduction pages advocacy for individuals conditions — and she is individuals who experience Yang Center for Bionics
are the presentations of the with visible and invisible sending a bright signal to disability,” says Yang. will be a research center
relevant companies and the disabilities. Her previous the world that the lives of “This new commitment unlike any other in the
manufacturer Responsibility.
gifts to MIT have also individuals who experience extends my philanthropic world,” he says. “A deep
In addition to the Labmedya enabled the establishment disability matter deeply.” investment into the realm understanding of complex
of the K. Lisa Yang and of physical disabilities, biological systems, coupled
Hock E. Tan Center for AN INTERDISCIPLINARY and I look forward to the with rapid advances in
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