Projects
2025
-Our project titled as ‘Development of Conductive Bioink for the Fabrication of 3D Cardiac and Neural Tissue Models’ has been accepted for funding under TÜSEB A4 Project Support Program. Congrats to Elif Güner and Özüm Yıldırım Semerci for being a part of the project team as researchers and to Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahu Arslan Yıldız as the supervisor!
-Our project titled as ‘Improving the Angiogenic Potential of Hydrocolloid-Based Scaffolds Developed for Lung Tumor Modeling’ has been granted funding by TÜBİTAK-ARDEB under 1002 Support Program. Congrats to Özüm Yıldırım Semerci for being a part of the project team as coordinator and to Assoc. Prof. Dr Ahu Arslan Yıldız as the supervisor!
2024
-Biomimetics Group’s project titled as ‘Development of a Hydrocolloid and Bioglass-Based Bioactive Tissue Scaffold for Bone Tissue Engineering’ has been accepted for funding under TÜSEB A4 Project Support Program. Congrats to Hilal Deniz Yılmaz Dağdeviren for being a part of the project team as researcher and to Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahu Arslan Yıldız as the supervisor!
-Our project titled as ‘Development of a Biomimetic Hybrid Membrane System from Renewable Resources for 3D Blood–Brain Barrier Modeling and Imaging Using Polymer Dots’ has been granted funding by TÜBİTAK 1001 Programme. Congrats to the team and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahu Arslan Yıldız as the project coordinator!
2023
-Our research project titled as ‘Development of a Polysaccharide- and Peptide-Based Hybrid Bioink via 3D Bioprinting for Dental Tissue Engineering’ has been accepted for funding by ADEP. Congrats to the team and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahu Arslan Yıldız as the project coordinator!
-Our research project titled as ‘Development and Characterization of Meninges Tissue-Based Bioscaffolds for Neural Tissue Engineering Applications’ has been accepted for funding by IYTE-BAP. Congrats to the team and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahu Arslan Yıldız as the project coordinator!
-Our research project titled as ‘Development of an on-chip 3D blood–brain barrier model using central nervous system extracellular matrix-based hydrogels’ has been accepted for funding by the Research Project of the Presidency of Turkey Health Institutes (TÜSEB)-B Group. Congrats to the team and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahu Arslan Yıldız as the project coordinator!
2022
-Our research project titled as ‘Analysis of cell differentiation via magnetic levitation technique’ has been accepted for funding! Congrats to the team and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahu Arslan Yıldız as the project coordinator!
2021
-Our project titled as ‘Development of 3D tumor models for investigating drug efficacy of sapogenol derivatives’ has been granted funding by TÜBİTAK 1001 Programme. Congrats to the team and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahu Arslan Yıldız as the project coordinator!
2019
September 2019- Our project on development of 3D cardiac cell culture models for drug screening is accepted for financial support by TUBITAK 1002 programme.