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Büşra Ağır Successfully Defends Master’s Thesis

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Büşra Ağır has successfully defended her master’s thesis!

Çağatay Şahin Successfully Defends Master’s Thesis

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Çağatay Şahin has successfully defended his master’s thesis!

Kadir Ziya Durmus Successfully Defends Master’s Thesis

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Kadir Ziya Durmuş has successfully defended his master’s thesis!

Hilal Kayacan Successfully Defends Master’s Thesis

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Hilal Kayacan has successfully completed her master’s thesis defense!

Emre Kilic Successfully Defends Master’s Thesis

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Emre Kılıç defended his master’s thesis successfully!

Ege Amirak Accepted into UniTartu Computational Immunology Summer School 2025

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One of our master’s students, Ege Amirak, has been accepted into the UniTartu Computational Immunology Summer School 2025 and awarded a Full Tuition Fee Scholarship!

Emre Receives TÜBİTAK Performance Award

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Great news! Our PhD student Emre received the TÜBİTAK performance award.

Ekiz Lab at MIMIC-VI

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Ekiz Lab at MIMIC-VI 🤩

Atakan Ekiz receives a BAGEP award

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Atakan Ekiz received BAGEP Young Investigator award from the Science Academy, an independent, non-governmental organization in Turkey dedicated to promoting scientific…

Atakan Ekiz is selected as one of the Ten Outstanding Young People in Turkey

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Atakan Ekiz was selected by the Junior Chamber International (JCI) as one of the ten outstanding young people in the Turkey. He received the honor in the “Scientific…

Ege Amirak receives a TUBITAK Scholarship

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Ege Amirak, one of the amazing graduate students in the lab, receives a TUBITAK scholarship! His name is now on one of the steps of “The Tower”. Congrats Ege!

Dr. Atakan Ekiz receives an EMBO Installation grant

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The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) awards Dr. Ekiz with an Installation Grant. With this support, our lab will investigate long noncoding RNAs that control…

Cagatay Sahin and Emre Kilic receive TUBITAK scholarships

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Two graduate students in the lab, Cagatay Sahin and Emre Kilic, have received TUBITAK graduate scholarships. “The Tower” gained two more steps 🤩 Congrats to both of you!

Dr. Atakan Ekiz receives the Barlan Award from the Turkish Society of Immunology

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Owing to his contributions to the field of immunology, Dr. Ekiz is awarded with the Isil Berat Barlan award by Turkish Society of Immunology. Some of the works that led to…

Preprint describing a new data analysis interface is published

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The preprint describing The Cancer Genome Explorer (TCGEx)¹ is published in bioRxiv. TCGEx helps non-specialists to perform sophisticated bioinformatic analyses through…

Emre Kus completes his MSc and becomes the first graduate of the lab

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Emre has successfully defended his Master’s thesis and became the first graduate of the Ekiz Lab. He spearheaded the development of The Cancer Genome Explorer (TCGEx)…

New seed funding through a collaboration with University of Mississippi

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The Ekiz lab established a new collaboration with colleagues in the USA to study the immune responses to pathogenic bacteria in catfish. This seed grant originates from the…

New article describing the adrenal cancer immune dynamics during aging is published

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We helped tremendous collaborators at the University of Utah (USA) to characterize new mechanisms of immune remodeling in adrenal cancer. The study published in Nature Aging …

Hilal Kayacan and Busra Agir receive internal funding support

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Two of our graduate students, Hilal Kayacan and Busra Agir, received internal funding support for their research projects. They will investigate how miRNA-142 and miRNA-150…

Dr. Atakan Ekiz gets appointed as the UNESCO Chairholder at IzTech

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Dr. Ekiz is appointed as the holder for the Biotechnology and Innovation Chair established by UNESCO at IzTech. This Chair aims to facilitate exchanging ideas, launch new…

A new book chapter on breast cancer immunology published

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With tremendous collaborators in the USA, we have written a new book chapter that describes the involvement of the immune system in breast cancer. The book is published by…

Kadir Durmus receives a TUBITAK scholarship

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Kadir Durmus, one of the MS students in the lab received a TUBITAK graduate scholarship! His work will elucidate the roles of the long noncoding RNA NRAV in melanoma immune…

A group of undergrads have received TUSEB funding

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Four tremendous undergrads of the Ekiz Lab, Cagatay Sahin, Emre Kilic, and Mert Ozgur (intern from the Bilkent University), have received TUSEB-A1 undergraduate research…

Dr. Atakan Ekiz receives the Turkish Academy of Sciences Outstanding Young Investigator Award

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Dr. Ekiz is selected as one of the 34 Outstanding Young Investigators in the nation by the Turkish Academy of Sciences. The award ceremony took place in the Presidential…

A new review article examining the roles of miRNAs in tumor immunity and immunotherapy is published

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Dr. Ekiz wrote a new review article with his postdoc lab to describe the potential of miRNAs in cancer immunotherapy. Have a good read!

Dr. Atakan Ekiz receives the best instructor award

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Dr. Ekiz received the best instructor award at the IzTech graduation ceremony. This award was given based on the positive feedback from the students as well as the class…

Dr. Atakan Ekiz is featured in the Fulbright Newsletter

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Dr. Ekiz’s research and TUBITAK-2232 grant are featured in the Fulbright newsletter and the national media. These news stories describe how our lab is set out to investigate…