PolyDenGels

The IUPAC MACRO 50th World Polymer Congress, held in Warwick, England on July 1-4, 2024, brought together leading scientists and researchers worldwide. Tuana Seray Yildirim and Seyma Nur Kirmic Cosgun participated in the congress with poster presentations.

Tuana Seray Yildirim, in her poster titled “Viscoelastic System Containing Nano-Structured Carriers”, explained in detail the potential applications of viscoelastic systems containing nanostructured carriers and her related studies. Seyma Nur Kirmic Cosgun, in her poster titled “Starch-PVP/Starch-Gelatin-PVP Hydrogels via Graft Copolymerization”, presented her research on the development and characterization of starch-based hydrogels.

We congratulate Tuana Seray Yildirim and Seyma Nur Kirmic Cosgun for their participation and presentation at this prestigious event and wish them success in their future works.

As Polydengels group, we participated in IX. Polymer Science and Technology Congress which was held with international participation. Important presentations were made by our group at the congress.

Prof. Dr. Deniz CEYLAN made an oral presentation titled “Enhancing Properties and Diverse Applications of Starch Hydrogels”. In addition, PhD students Seyma Nur KIRMIC COSGUN presented their studies titled “Supramolecular Hydrogels Crosslinked with Cyclodextrin”, Alime SARIKAYA ”Characteristic Properties of Hydrogels Synthesis with Photoinitiators” and Hakan AVCI presented their studies titled “Intratumoral Injection of Novel Drug-Loaded Starch Spheres into Pancreatic Cancer (PDAC) Tissue” as posters.

This event provided the opportunity to share our research on an international platform and exchange information with other experts in our field. We are proud to showcase the scientific contributions of Polydengels group once again with our participation and presentations.

Prof. Dr. Deniz Ceylan and Hakan Avcı were in Adana to compete in the TEKNOFEST 2024 Champions League and receive their silver medals, which they had previously won in the TUBITAK 2242 competition.

Hakan Avcı received his second award from TÜBİTAK with his project aiming at the treatment of pancreatic cancer, which he prepared under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Deniz Ceylan. The project was awarded the second prize.

Our valuable PolyDenGels team members Burak Aydın and Hakan Avcı have successfully completed their graduation theses in the direction of supervisor Prof Dr. Deniz Ceylan. Preparation of Poly(N- Acryloyl 2-Glycine) (PNAG) Microcapsules by Microfluidics Method, a thesis by Burak Aydın, and Synthesis and Characterization of Ionic Cross-Linked Starch Mıcrospheres, a thesis by Hakan Avcı, were presented.
Our best wishes are for them to keep succeeding.

23.07.2024

The TÜBİTAK 1001 project named “Design and Application of Fast, Practical and Controllable Thermoirisbone-Irislattice Systems for Use in Vertical Bone Augmentation”, which was supervised by Dr. Emine Fulya AKKOYUN and whose project team included Dr. Taha PERGEL and also Prof. Dr. Deniz CEYLAN TUNCABOYLU and Dr. Hüsna KILIÇ from our PolyDenGels team was accepted.

Another Tübitak 1001 project of the PolyDenGels team, titled “Designing Spheroid-Containing Bio-inks with a New Method” was deemed worthy of support among many project applications. The project, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Deniz CEYLAN TUNCABOYLU, including Dr. Aslıhan ARGUN, was designed within the scope of Alime Eva SARIKAYA‘s PhD Thesis.

02.01.2024

The project of Şeymanur Kırmıç Coşgun, one of our doctoral students, was published in the International Journal of Biological Macromolecules with an impact factor of 8.2 under the name “G-POSS linked double-network starch gels for protein release”.

The article link is available to interested parties under the publications section.

21.12.2023

It was decided to support TUSEB project, in which the PolyDenGels Research group is involved.

The project “Development of Bioactive, Eye-Compatible, Muco-adhesive,
Resistant to High Intraocular Pressure, and Cross-Linkable with Tears Drug Carrier Biomaterials for Ocular Tissue Healing and Regeneration”, which was prepared under the direction of Research Asst. Dr. Rümeysa TUTAR at Istanbul University – Cerrahpaşa, has been eligible to receive project support within the framework of TUSEB Group B R&D Project Call.

We want to express our gratitude to everyone who participated in this
project and wish all the best for the future.

27.09.23

Bezmialem Vakıf University hosted the health and life sciences and technologies summit, where important participants who worked on projects in a variety of sectors presented their work using prepared posters.

These competitors included members of the PolyDenGels Team; Hüsna KILIÇ, Şeyma Nur KIRMIÇ COŞGUN, and Hakan AVCI stepped forward and effectively proposed their projects to the judges.

19.09.2023

FAPS 2023 International Polymer Congress seeks to bring together distinguished scientists and specialists from all over the world to stimulate meaningful discussions and information exchange regarding polymer sciences and technologies.

Our dear instructor Prof. Dr. Deniz CEYLAN TUNCABOYLU, made her presentation to noteworthy participants from various countries.

Of course, the finale was made with Stuffed Mussels and Kokoreç.

12.09.2023