An important step to shed light on the treatment of ALS, a non-curable disease…
Prof. A. Nazlı Başak (KUTTAM-NDAL, Suna and Inan Kıraç Foundation) and Ass. Prof. Hamzah Syed (KUTTAM) received support from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research/ International Development Research Center (CIHR/IDRC) with their project on “The Oral And Gut Microbiome And Their Derived Metabolites in Sex Differences in ALS”. Researchers will investigate the relationship between ALS, a non-curable brain disease and the role, specific gut microorganisms might play in the development of ALS.

Prof Tuğba Bağcı Önder from the School of Medicine, Postdoc Researcher Alişan Kayabölen from Koç University Research Center for Translational Medicine (KUTTAM) and their team designed a new molecule to fight against SARS-CoV2, which caused the COVID-19 pandemic. This molecule, placed between the virus and the ACE2 receptor, which the virus uses to enter the cell, will be able to prevent the virus from entering our body by clinging on to the receptor. The article about the research was published in one of the most prestigious journals in its field, Advanced Science.

Prof Tuğba Bağcı Önder from the School of Medicine, Postdoc Researcher Alişan Kayabölen from Koç University Research Center for Translational Medicine (KUTTAM) and their team designed a new molecule to fight against SARS-CoV2, which caused the COVID-19 pandemic. This molecule, placed between the virus and the ACE2 receptor, which the virus uses to enter the cell, will be able to prevent the virus from entering our body by clinging on to the receptor. The article about the research was published in one of the most prestigious journals in its field, Advanced Science.

Prof. Seda Kesin Avcı from our Chemical and Biological Engineering Department was selected for the list of “The World’s 20 Most Extraordinary Women of Science” by ChERD [Chemical Engineering Research and Design], one of the world’s most distinguished journals in chemical engineering. With her research aimed at finding solutions to global warming and climate change, which we happen to face as the primary problems ofour planet today, Prof. Keskin Avcı became one of the 20 women researchers who left their mark on their respective fields. ChERD shared recipients’s research with its readers in a special issue, aiming to also draw attention to gender inequality in chemical engineering.

The Migration Research Center at Koç University (MiReKoc) team led by Prof Ahmet İçduygu is searching for the answer to this question. Their project “MIG-AGE (Do Immigrants in Europe Aging Well? Mixed Methods and Intervention Study in Four Countries)” supported by The Volkswagen Foundation, addresses the question of what it means for different groups of migrants in Europe to be old and age well, specifically for first-generation retired labor migrants from Italy and Turkey living in Germany and the Netherlands and for retired migrants from Germany and the Netherlands living in Italy and Turkey.

Our other “Proof of Concept” grant from the European Research Council (ERC) came to Assoc. Prof. Mustafa Erdem Kabadayı from the Department of History who in his project analyzes radical land use and land cover segmentation by associating them with population dynamics from the 1940s to the present in the area including Istanbul, Edirne, and Plovdiv to predict possible agricultural population loss, agricultural land abandonment and deforestation in the 2040s.