Dr. Yusuf TUTAR is the Head of Biochemistry Division and the Head of Basic Sciences Department at Faculty of Pharmacy, Cumhuriyet University, Sivas Turkey. Tutar is also the Head of Biomedical Engineering Program at the same university. He obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. at Oregon State University and Texas Tech University respectively. He pursued his postdoctoral study at National Institutes of Health (NIH/NIDDK), USA. His research focuses on Biochemistry, Biophysics, Genetics, and Molecular Biology.

Drug design; Molecular cancer; Protein structure-function; Protein folding; Prion; Picrorna; Pseudogenes; Proteomics; Genomics; Protein expression and Characterization by Spectroscopic and Calorimetric methods.