Winners of the TÜBİTAK Science, Special, Service, and Incentive Awards and TÜBA-GEBİP Awards have been announced. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan presented the awards to the scientists at the ceremony where four faculty members and researchers from Sabancı University were found deserving of the awards.
The “TÜBİTAK Science, Special, Service and Incentive Awards” organized by TÜBİTAK to support research and development activities in scientific and technological fields and to provide opportunities for the training of scientists and researchers were distributed. A total of 21 awards, including 7 Science Awards, 1 Service Award, and 13 Incentive Awards, were given at the ceremony, held on December 18 at the Beştepe National Congress and Culture Center with the participation of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Molecular Biology, Genetics and Bioengineering Program Faculty Member Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ogün Adebali and Sabancı University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Psychology Program Faculty Member Dr. Eren Günseli were found deserving of the TÜBİTAK Incentive Award.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ogün Adebali was granted the award for his outstanding international work on developing bioinformatics tools that enable the examination of DNA damage responses in various organisms. At the ceremony, Sabancı University President Prof. Dr. Yusuf Leblebici received the award on behalf of Assoc. Prof. Dr. Adebali from President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Dr. Eren Günseli was granted the award for his pioneering work at an international level to understand the interaction of cognitive functions such as memory, attention, and decision-making and the neural mechanisms underlying these processes.
TWO TÜBA GEBİP (OUTSTANDING YOUNG SCIENTIST) AWARDS TO OUR UNIVERSITY
Additionally, the TÜBA-GEBİP Awards, which have been given since 2001 to reward and encourage outstanding young scientists working in the fields of nature, engineering, health sciences, and social sciences to continue their scientific studies in Turkey and to reward and encourage internationally qualified projects and publications originating from Turkey, were distributed.
In the Natural Sciences category, Dr. Nur Mustafaoğlu from Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences won the TÜBA-GEBİP Award in the field of bioengineering. In the Engineering Sciences category, Dr. Morteza Ghorbani, Researcher at Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences and Nanotechnology Research and Application Center, is among the scientists who won the TÜBA-GEBİP Award in the field of mechanical engineering.
