Translating biotechnology to knowledge-based innovation, peace, and development? Deploy a Science Peace Corps--an open letter to world leaders.

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Published in OMICS on June 23, 2014

Authors

Nezih Hekim1, Yavuz Coşkun, Ahmet Sınav, Alaa H Abou-Zeid, Mehmet Ağırbaşlı, Simisola O Akintola, Şükrü Aynacıoğlu, Mustafa Bayram, Nicola Luigi Bragazzi, Collet Dandara, Türkay Dereli, Edward S Dove, Levent Elbeyli, Laszlo Endrenyi, Kamile Erciyas, Jack Faris, Lynnette R Ferguson, Fahrettin Göğüş, Kıvanç Güngör, Mervi Gürsoy, Ulvi K Gürsoy, M Asım Karaömerlioğlu, Ilona Kickbusch, Türker Kılıç, Metin Kılınç, Tanıl Kocagöz, Biaoyang Lin, Adrián LLerena, Vangelis G Manolopoulos, Bipin Nair, Bülent Özkan, Tikki Pang, Şemra Sardaş, Sanjeeva Srivastava, Cengiz Toraman, Kemal Üstün, Louise Warnich, Ambroise Wonkam, Mustafa Cengiz Yakıcıer, Ümit Yaşar, Vural Özdemir

Author Affiliations

1: 1 Office of the Dean, Faculty of Medicine, SANKO University , Gaziantep, Turkey .

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