Please feel free to contact our Associate Editor for Preclinical Science, Sakire Pogun at [email protected] or [email protected], with any questions.
Dr. Sakire Pogun is a Professor and Consultant at Ege University Center for Brain Research (EUBAM) and Institute on Drug Abuse, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science (BATI). She has received her academic degrees in Turkey (Hacettepe and Ege Universities), worked at the Johns Hopkins University as a post doctoral researcher and NIH/NIDA/IRP as a visiting professor. Her earlier work involves dopaminergic, cholinergic, and nitrergic neurotransmission at the receptor, transporter and behavioral levels. For the past 25 years, her research focused on nicotine (sex differences, individual differences in preference, animal models). She has authored over 80 articles in peer reviewed journals, three books, book chapters, and prepared a film on physiology laboratory.