Best Poster Award by Turkish Society of Immunology Primary Researcher: Ms.Gozde. Gucluler, CpG ODN Loaded Exosome Nanovesicles: Enhanced Immunostımulatory Activity. Molecular Immunology&Immunogenetics Congress, Antalya, Turkey, April 2012).

Best Research Poster Award,  17th International Symposium on Biomedical Science and Technology (BIOMED 2011), Primary researcher: Dr.Gizem Tincer,  Polysaccharide-TLR agonist nanocomplexes: Mechanism of action as immune adjuvants.  November 2011.

Best Research Award, 9^th National Congress of Rheumatology, Primary Researcher: Mr. Tamer Kahraman, The relation between clinical findings and severity of Behçet Syndrome and the origin and level of plasma microparticles., Oct. 2008

Research Excellence Award for establishing the “micro array platform for transcriptome analyses of immune cells triggered by CpG DNA”. The Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, 2005.

Best research award, “Repetitive elements present in mammalian telomeres suppress CpG DNA induced immune activation”, NIH Immunology Retreat, Oct, 2003, Airlie, VA,

Research Excellence Award for establishing the “identification of the first example of a self-molecule capable of down-regulating the innate immune responses elicited by a PAMP”. The Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, 2003.

Research Excellence Award for establishing the “activity of liposome encapsulated CpG ODN in the prevention of cancer and infection”. The Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, 2002.

Best Research Award, in XVI National Orthopedic Symposium, Antalya, Turkey, “Production of bacterial origin polyesters and their use in the treatment of osteomyelitis” 1999.

ORISE Fellowship, to carry out research on the “Immunobiology of CpG containing oligodeoxynucleotides”, in Dr. Dennis M. Klinman`s Lab., at FDA/CBER/Lab Retroviral Immunology, NIH Campus, Bethesda MD, 1998 (for three years).

Best MSc project proposal: “High yield production of biodegradable polyhydroxyalkanoate from Alcaligenes eutrophus and Alcaligenes latus via novel biotechnological route” to support an MSc student expenses to conduct MSc. Research. Grant is funded by the Institute of Natural and Basic Sciences, METU, Turkey, Jan 1997 (for two years).

Several travel awards to participate to national and international conferences/symposia.

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