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第十八期，我们采访了BAM编委Vasif Hasirci，一起来听听他对科研的独特见解、对期刊发展的期待、有趣的科研生活吧！
人物专访：
Vasif Hasirci
Vasif Hasirci
BIOMATEN, CoE in Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
Profile
Vasif Hasirci is the Founding Director of the Center of Excellence in Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering at METU, Ankara, Turkey. He has expertise in biomedical, biotechnological and nanotechnological applications of natural and synthetic polymers. He retired from METU Dept. of Biological Sciences and is now a professor at Acibadem University (ACU) Dept. of Biomedical Engineering. He is the Director of ACU Biomaterials Center that he established and also is the Chair of the ACU Biomaterials Graduate Program.
He is an Associate Editor of Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology and also of Exploration of BioMat-X and serves on the Editorial Boards of several journals including Biomaterials; Bioactive Materials, J. Biomaterials Science: Polymer Edn., and Nanomedicine. He is a Fellow of the Science Academy (Turkey), the International College of Fellows of Biomaterials Science and Engineering (IUSBSE), and Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)(UK). He is also a Honorary Member of the European Society for Biomaterials. He is the founding President of the Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Society (Turkey). He is one of the founders of BIOMED Biomedical Science and Technology Symposia in Turkey in 1994; 27th is being organized this year. With a colleague, Prof. Feng Huei Lin we started the EWAB symposia (East West Asia Biomaterials) and this year the 4th is China, in Yantai. Dr. Hasirci is the recipient of Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) Encouragement Award (1982), METU M. Parlar Science Award (2001), S. Simavi Medical Sciences Award (2017), HASVAK Study of the Year Award (2017).
科研分享
能否简单介绍一下您目前的研究领域？
My research field has evolved over the years but has always been within the confines of biomaterials. At the moment one of my projects is accepted to be funded by the Turkish Ministry of Health for a Pilot Clinical study involving 6 patients for implantation of our 3D printed bone implants as femur segments. A similar one is about the corneal stroma substitutes. I have also studies on designing and producing tissue models to study cell and tissue behavior under certain conditions. And another project that is about to finish is on mimicking the air:blood interface at the lungs for a final application towards COVID-19 studies.
您在科研中遇到过什么样的困难？您又是如何克服的？
Researchers I think are businessmen who do not earn money but instead gain academic and scientific satisfaction. I have gone through all the“research fund search, good student scouting and developing intelligent projects in my field”steps of a typical academician. However, being in a country where the chemicals and the main devices for sophisticated research are not produced and where the funds are about 10 fold lower than other countries makes it 2-3 times harder. International collaboration have always been a life safer because exchange of ideas, the sharing data and collaboration has always been very beneficial.
期刊发展
是什么吸引您加入BAM编委团队的？
Presence of Profs. Yufeng Zheng and Diego Mantovani, and being invited by Prof. Peppas, a old acquaintance, were the main reasons why I decided to join.
您对Bioactive Materials未来的发展以及推动相关领域的发展有何期待？
The journal has proven to be highly attractive for the scientific community and the IF jumped to very high levels. This was a bit surprising but I believe the academic quality of the Editorial Board was the main reason for this interest. I am glad that it did not subside because the number of new journals being published almost every day create havoc in the publishing market.
科研与生活
科研以外，您最大的爱好是什么？
Photography and drawing are my main pastimes. Tennis and Ping Pong were, once.
您如何平衡科研工作与生活？
My work place and home are quite close in Ankara, so I did not spend too much time on the road. But after retiring from METU I started at Acibadem University in Istanbul to set up a center similar to that I did at METU and to produce implants in clean rooms for pilot scale clinical testing. This started my weekly 2 day visits to Istanbul and was not very convenient especially during the COVID times. The remaining 3 days of the weekdays I spend at METU as a consultant and keep on doing what I used to do but on a lower scale. So, my present schedule is not ideal for a person my age but the new Center does still need my guidance for some more time. Personal life slowed down in the recent years due to the viral disease and international travel almost stopped. Trying to recover the earlier mood.
您认为作为科研工作者最重要的资质是什么？
Honesty, Goodwill, and Patience, in this order.
寄语
对于要决心投身科学研究的青年学者，您有什么建议？
They should know that this is a very enjoyable profession if research becomes an important part of it. International and national travel, having new research partners and even friends, organizing events and attending others broadens ones look at the world. Very enriching.
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Bioactive Materials 创建于2016年，自2019年被SCIE检索收录以来影响因子实现跳跃式增长（IF 2019: 8.724；IF 2020: 14.593；IF 2021: 16.874；IF 2022:18.9; IF 2023: 18）；JCR materials science, biomaterials 领域国际排名连续四年第一。此外， 2020年到2023年连续四年入选中国科学院文献情报中心期刊分区表一区，Top期刊；入选材料科学综合类高质量科技期刊分级目录T1区。
