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Projects

BIOTIN offers 20 research Projects in three areas;

1) drug discovery and development,

2) diagnosis and

3) tissue engineering and artificial organs.

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Cellular adaptations to microgravity


 

Project Acronym
CELLADAPT

Supervisors
Prof. Engin Özçivici (IZTECH)
Asst. Prof. Nesli Erdogmus (IZTECH)
Assoc. Prof. Bora Garipcan (BOUN)

PhD Awarding Institution
İzmir Institute of Technology


PhD Title
PhD in Bioengineering

Machine learning assisted predictive design of biomineralizing peptides for tissue regeneration
 

Project Acronym
BioMInt

Supervisors
Asst. Prof. Deniz T. Yucesoy (IZTECH)
Asst. Prof. Işıl Öz (IZTECH)
Assoc. Prof. Duygu Ege (BOUN)

PhD Awarding Institution
İzmir Institute of Technology

PhD Title
PhD in Bioengineering

Organoid-on-chip models for precision medicine

 

Project Acronym
OROCPM

Supervisors
Prof. Devrim Pesen Okvur (IZTECH)
Assoc. Prof. Mustafa Ozuysal (IZTECH)
Prof. Esra Erdal (IBG)

PhD Awarding Institution
İzmir Institute of Technology

PhD Title

PhD in Molecular Biology and Genetics

Two dimensional materials for sensing applications

 

Project Acronym
2DSense

Supervisors
Prof. Hasan Şahin (IZTECH)
Assoc. Prof. Bora Garipcan (BOUN)
Asst. Prof. Ceyda Öksel Karakuş (IZTCH)

PhD Awarding Institution
İzmir Institute of Technology

PhD Title

PhD in Photonics Science and Engineering

Organoid based on-chip disease models

 

Project Acronym
ORGANOMIC

Supervisors
Assoc. Prof. Sinan Güven (IBG)
Assoc. Prof. Bora Garipcan (BOUN)
Assoc. Prof. Cumhur Tekin (IZTECH)

PhD Awarding Institution
Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir International Biomedicine and Genome Institute


PhD Title

PhD in Biomedicine and Health Technologies

Design of novel sugar and lipid-based reactive polymeric materials for cellular targeting
 

Project Acronym
SUGLIPOL

Supervisors
Prof. Amitav Sanyal(BOUN)
Prof. Cengizhan Öztürk(BOUN)
Assoc. Prof. Özden Yalçın Özuysal (IZTECH)

PhD Awarding Institution
Boğaziçi University, Institute of Biomedical Engineering


PhD Title

PhD in Biomedical Engineering

Development of novel quantum-mechanical descriptors for nano-biomaterials and their application to predicting toxicity

Project Acronym
QMDESforNANO

Supervisors
Asst. Prof. Ceyda Öksel Karakuş (IZTECH)
Prof. Hasan Sahin (IZTECH)
Assoc. Prof. Gökhan Karakülah (IBG)


PhD Awarding Institution
İzmir Institute of Technology

PhD Title
PhD in Bioengineering

Development of membranes for isolation and separation of extracellular vesicles
 

Project Acronym
MemEcV

Supervisors
Prof. Sacide Alsoy Altınkaya (IZTECH)
Prof. Amitav Sanyal (BOUN)
Assoc. Prof. Özden Yalçın Özuysal (IZTECH)


PhD Awarding Institution
İzmir Institute of Technology

PhD Title

PhD in Chemical Engineering

Extending query processing with big data pipelines of multi-omics data for better understanding of complex phenotypes

Project Acronym
OROCPM

Supervisors
Assoc. Prof. Belgin Ergenç Bostanoğlu (IZTECH)

Assoc. Prof. Efe Sezgin (IZTECH)
Assoc. Prof. Gökhan Karakülah (IBG)

PhD Awarding Institution
İzmir Institute of Technology

PhD Title

PhD in Computer Engineering

Ti-based smart materials for load-bearing biomedical implants

 

Project Acronym
SMARTLANT

Supervisors
Prof. Fatih Toptan (IZTECH)
Asst. Prof. Deniz Tanıl Yücesoy (IZTECH)
Assoc. Prof. Duygu Ege (BOUN)

PhD Awarding Institution
İzmir Institute of Technology

PhD Title

PhD in Materials Science and Engineering

Development of patient derived cancer organoid on a chip platform for preclinical testing of CAR-mediated immunotherapy

Project Acronym
oCARs (Organoid based CAR screening)

Supervisors
Prof. Esra Erdal (IBG)
Prof. Mayda Gürsel (IBG)
Prof. Devrim Pesen Okvur (IZTECH)

PhD Awarding Institution
Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir International Biomedicine and Genome Institute


PhD Title

PhD in Molecular Biology and Genetics

Targeted drug delivery for oncology applications

 

Project Acronym
TADDO

Supervisors
Prof. Rana Sanyal (BOUN)
Prof. Cengizhan Ozturk (BOUN)
Prof. Esra Erdal (IBG)



PhD Awarding Institution
Boğaziçi University, Institute of Biomedical Engineering


PhD Title

PhD in Biomedical Engineering

Label-free single cell analysis in microfluidics devices using self-supervised deep learning
 

Project Acronym
DeepCell

Supervisors
Assoc. Prof. Cumhur Tekin (IZTECH)
Assoc Prof. Mustafa Ozuysal (IZTECH)
Assoc. Prof. Sinan Guven (IBG)


PhD Awarding Institution
İzmir Institute of Technology

PhD Title
PhD in Bioengineering

Ultrasound-assisted drug delivery for cancer research

 

Project Acronym
USaddCARE

Supervisors
Assoc. Prof. Sevgi Kılıç Özdemir (IZTECH)
Prof. Bünyamin AKGÜL (IZTECH)
Prof. Güneş ÖZHAN (IBG)

PhD Awarding Institution
İzmir Institute of Technology

PhD Title

PhD in Chemical Engineering

Efficient community detection in biological networks

 

Project Acronym
BIODETECT

Supervisors
Asst. Prof. Işıl Öz (IZTECH)
Asst. Prof. Deniz Tanıl Yücesoy (IZTECH)
Assoc. Prof. Ezgi Karaca (IBG)

PhD Awarding Institution
İzmir Institute of Technology

PhD Title

PhD in Computer Engineering

Characterizing the regulatory roles of long-noncoding RNAs in tumor immunity
 

Project Acronym
LNCTIMM

Supervisors
Asst. Prof. H. Atakan Ekiz (IZTECH)
Prof. Bünyamin Akgül (IZTECH)
Assoc. Prof. Gökhan Karakülah (IBG)

PhD Awarding Institution
İzmir Institute of Technology

PhD Title

PhD in Molecular Biology and Genetics

Structure-based detection of critical mutations in redesigning protein-protein interfaces

Project Acronym
PROT-ON

Supervisors
Asst. Prof. Ezgi Karaca (IBG)
Assoc. Prof. Gökhan Karakulah (IBG)
Asst. Prof. Işıl Öz (IZTECH)

PhD Awarding Institution
Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir International Biomedicine and Genome Institute


PhD Title

PhD in Biomedicine and Health Technologies

3D printed boron doped bioactive glasses for soft tissue engineering applications and their zebrafish response

Project Acronym
SOFT-BOR

Supervisors
Assoc. Prof. Duygu Ege (BOUN)
Asst. Prof. Deniz T. Yücesoy (IZTECH)
Prof. Güneş Özhan (IBG)



PhD Awarding Institution
Boğaziçi University, Institute of Biomedical Engineering


PhD Title

PhD in Biomedical Engineering

Development of smart powered prosthetic devices and neurorehabilitation technologies
 

Project Acronym
Power of Neurotechnology

Supervisors
Prof. Can A. Yücesoy (BOUN)
Asst. Prof. Sinan Öncü (BOUN)
Prof. Yalın Baştanlar (IZTECH)

PhD Awarding Institution
Boğaziçi University, Institute of Biomedical Engineering


PhD Title

PhD in Biomedical Engineering

An example for democratization of biomedical instrumentation: make your own cell/culture monitoring/sorting device

Project Acronym
FrugalCellTech

Supervisors
Prof. Cengizhan Öztürk (BOUN)
Prof. Rana Sanyal (BOUN)
Assoc. Prof. Cumhur Tekin (IZTECH)

PhD Awarding Institution
Boğaziçi University, Institute of Biomedical Engineering


PhD Title

PhD in Biomedical Engineering

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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 101081373. It has also been co-funded by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK) and İzmir Institute of Technology (IZTECH).

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