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Our Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Laboratory, which serves within the Science and Advanced Technology Application and Research Center (IMU-BILTAM) of our university, is opened to the use of researchers from European Union countries within the scope of academic collaborations with the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the European Nanotechnology Group. 

Scientific Research Projects Opened to Foreign Researchers in Our Laboratory as part of Collaborations

In order to encourage scientific and academic cooperation with academic and research institutions in other countries, our university has opened two important projects in our laboratory to German researchers upon the request of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). In this context, our first German guest researcher has started to work in our laboratory on the classification of Raman signals obtained from human brain tissue using machine learning. In this way, the German government provides full support within the framework of DAAD to researchers who want to be involved in the scientific projects we are conducting, provided that they continue their studies in our laboratory for at least 6 weeks.

Both of the scientific projects that are the subject of our university's collaboration with the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) are being carried out under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Murat KAZANCİ, Head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Director of BİLTAM Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Laboratory. The first one, which is being carried out with the support of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK), aims to characterize mucilage collected from the Marmara Sea floor or produced from green algae in our laboratory using Mueller Matrix Polarimetry and Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) methods and to obtain biocomposite plastics for many different end uses.

The second project, which is being carried out with the support of the Health Institutes of Türkiye (TÜSEB), focuses on characterizing vesicles obtained from breast cancer cells with Raman signals and classifying these signals with artificial intelligence methods. With this project, which can play an important role in the accurate and early diagnosis of cancer types, it is aimed to ensure that the treatment processes of the disease are initiated more quickly and effectively. In this project, which is also being carried out under the coordination of Prof. Dr. Murat KAZANCİ, German researchers will be included within the scope of cooperation with the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

As a second partner, collaboration opportunities are being discussed with the European Nanotechnology Group to open our laboratory infrastructure for international use. Such collaboration aims to direct researchers from the European Union and neighboring countries to our laboratories and to improve the scope and extent of scientific research on an international scale.