Prof. Dr. Gülgün Tınaz's project titled "Development of a New Wound Treatment Strategy Using Exosome-Mediated Drug Delivery System in the Three-Dimensional Biomimetic Chronic Wound Model" was entitled to be supported within the scope of the "TÜBİTAK 1001 Scientific and Technological Research Projects Support Program".

The project, which will be carried out jointly by Marmara University Nanotechnology and Biomaterials Application and Research Center (NBUAM), Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa, Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul Technical University and Health Biotechnology Excellence Joint Application and Research Center (SABIOTEK) and will last 36 months includes a research team of 4 people and 3 scholarship students.

In the first phase of the project, which is carried out by Marmara University, artificial skin tissue will be created for the first time in Turkey using live human skin cells and bacterial cells with a 3D bioprinter. Afterward, it is aimed to imitate the biofilm, which is formed by the bacteria in the chronic wound environment and which constitutes the biggest obstacle in the treatment of chronic wounds, in the laboratory environment.  At the final phase of the project, it is aimed to develop a new treatment strategy for the prevention of biofilm using a drug delivery system.

We congratulate our academicians who contributed to the project and wish them a successful project period.