Within the scope of the European Union M-Eranet call, 3 of the 7 projects supported by Turkey were joined by lecturers of the Marmara University. 70 projects were supported out of 493 project applications across Europe and researchers from our country took part as coordinators in 3 projects and as partners in 4 projects of them.
Within the scope of the M-ERA.NET 3, 2021 Cofund call, which opened under the 'EU Horizon 2020 Program', Modeling Studies on Materials Engineering Issues, Innovative Surfaces, Coatings and Interfaces, High-Performance Composites, Functional Materials, New Strategies for Advanced Material-Based Technologies for Health Applications and Materials for Additive Manufacturing were supported. All three of the projects supported by our university are under the heading of new strategies for advanced material-based technologies for health applications.
The project titled “Nano-enabled stimuli-responsive scaffolds for targeted antimicrobials delivery to treat Staphylococcus aureus infections and restore skin homeostasis (TARDIS)”, in which Prof. Dr. Nüzhet Cenk Sesal took part as Turkey executive, was carried out under the management of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Spain, in partnership with Norwegian SINTEF company, Sofia University and Dead Sea and Arava Science Center from Israel.
Another project titled “Anti-calcification treatment of elastin-rich bioprosthetic materials using Fetuin-A for aortic valved conduits (VENUS)”, in which Prof. Dr. Ümit Şehirli, Prof. Dr. Ahmet Altuğ Çinçin, Prof. Dr. Feriha Ercan and Lect. Dr. Özlem Kirazlı took part as Turkey executive, was carried out under the management of the Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems IKTS from Germany, and in partnership with the University of Latvia, Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, the Polish Academy of Sciences and ALVIMEDICA.
In the project prepared under the leadership of Ege University, MARSTEM Cell Technologies Inc., which is located in Marmara University Technopark and Prof. Dr. Tunç Akkoç and Dr. Lect. Burak Aksu took part as partner. Bioengineer Sabriye Senem Kılıç and Biologist Zeynep Tunca from the MARSTEM team will also work on this project. In the project titled "Investigation of Regenerative Effects of CRISPR / Cas9 Functionalized Piezoelectric Nerve Conduits on in vitro and in vivo Spinal Cord Injury Models", AGH University of Science and Technology from Poland and Aarhus University from Denmark are also involved.
We congratulate our academicians who took part in the projects and wish them a successful project period.
