Our president, Prof. Metin Sitti's research article 'Artificial-goosebump-driven microactuation' was published in the prestigious Nature Materials magazine. This article proposes and demonstrates a new microactuation method that achieves precise manipulation in micro/nanoelectromechanical systems, particularly related to miniature robots, biomedical devices, and microfluidic devices.

Three of our faculty members have been honored with the prestigious TÜBİTAK Science Award, while two others have received the TÜBİTAK Incentive Award.

Faculty of Medicine Department of Brain and Nerve Surgery faculty member Prof. Dr. İhsan Solaroğlu has been elected as a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (https://euro-acad.eu/). The European Academy of Sciences and Arts is a European non-governmental organization committed to promoting scientific and social progress. The academy brings together over 2000 distinguished scientists from all over Europe, including 32 Nobel Prize winners. Dr. Solaroğlu will receive his membership certificate at the ceremony of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, which will be held in Salzburg on 5-6 April 2024.

Prof. Halil Kavaklı from the Departments of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Molecular Biology and Genetics received the 2023 Sedat Simavi Science Award, which is given annually in the fields of journalism, literature, sports and science.

Prof. Şuhnaz Yılmaz Özbağcı, Dean of the College of Administrative Sciences and Economics has been appointed as a new member of the EQUIS Accreditation Board ( 2023 – 2026).

This news was prepared in Turkish.

Prof. Seda Keskin Avcı from the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, who was the first women researcher from Turkey to receive ERC Starting Grant in the field of engineering with her project "COSMOS...

Assoc. Prof. Atay Vural, faculty member of the Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine contributed to the diagnosis of thousands of patients by bringing MOG and neurofascin antibody tests, which he developed within the scope of his studies on translational immunology, to Turkey, and contributed to the diagnosis of thousands of patients, Faculty of Engineering faculty member Assoc. Dr. Savaş Taşoğlu received the "Eczacıbaşı Medical Incentive Award" for contributing to the development of automated systems in his laboratory that can measure the reactions of various drugs to bioactive molecule combinations, and devices that make point-of-care disease diagnosis at an affordable cost and measure and analyze various health parameters in the long term.

Eczacıbaşı Scientific Research Support Award

PhD Thesis of Dr. Cansel Vatansever, who currently works as a postdoctoral researcher at KUISCID, has been awarded as the best outstanding thesis by Council of Higher Education (YÖK) under Health and Sports Sciences. Dr. Vatansever’s thesis was supervised by Vice Director Prof. Füsun Can.