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TÜBA Principle Member Prof. Dr. Oğuz Okay was given the Georg Forster Research Award

TÜBA Principle Member Prof. Dr. Oğuz Okay was given the Georg Forster Research Award

According to the announcement made on November 4, TÜBA Principle Member Prof. Dr. Oğuz Okay has been chosen for the Georg Forster Research Award, given in Germany by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for lifelong contributions to science. The award will be presented to Oğuz Okay at the annual meeting of the Foundation which is to take place in Berlin in June 2015. Prof. Dr. Oğuz Oka ...
TÜBA Principle Member Prof. Dr. H. Tayfun Özçelik and his Team have Found the 'Parkinson's Gene'

TÜBA Principle Member Prof. Dr. H. Tayfun Özçelik and his Team have Found the 'Parkinson's Gene'

The clinical team directed by TÜBA Principle Member Prof. Dr. Tayfun Özçelik and comprised of clinicians including 2012 TÜBA-GEBİP Award recipient Dr. Ayşe Begüm Tekinay, found the gene that causes Parkinson’s disease and hand tremors. Clinicians have known since the 1800s that a portion of people with hand tremors later develop Parkinson’s disease but t ...
TÜBA-AR is being Re-Published

TÜBA-AR is being Re-Published

  We spoke to Istanbul University Literature Faculty Department of Protohistory and Near Asia Archeology Teaching Staff Member and Istanbul University Fine Arts Department President Associate Prof. Dr. Şevket Dönmez about the TÜBA-AR (Turkish Academy of Sciences Journal of Archeology), of which he is the Chairman of the Editorial Board, being restructured and about archeology an ...
The Most Successful Microbial Fertilizer from Yeditepe University

The Most Successful Microbial Fertilizer from Yeditepe University

According to results of the research done within the scope of the “Rhibac Project”, for which the country coordinator is TÜBA Principle Member and Yeditepe University Genetics and Bio Engineering Department President Prof. Dr. Fikrettin Şahin, the bacteria strains developed by the Yeditepe University project team were the most successful among the microbial fertilizer preparation ...
TÜBA Honorary Member Prof. Dr. Halil İnancık was presented the 'Cemil Meriç Award' in the field of History

TÜBA Honorary Member Prof. Dr. Halil İnancık was presented the 'Cemil Meriç Award' in the field of History

TÜBA Honorary Member Prof. Dr. Halil İnalcık was given an award in the field of history within the scope of the ‘II. National Cemil Meriç Awards and Contributions to Social Peace Awards’ presented by the Mustafa Kemal University (MKU). Awards were presented by the MKU Thought and Cultural Studies Application and Research Center to individuals who had contributed to Hat ...